Downunderstruck IPA
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.23
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A Double IPA with Australian Hops
Australia is well-known for being the home of flora and fauna that exist nowhere else on earth. Among these creatures (both creepy and cuddly), you can also encounter some unique and highly sought-after hop varieties. Only in Oz can you find Galaxy, Ella and Vic Secret hops, which lend striking tropical fruit, citrus and peach flavors to this booming behemoth of an IPA. Originally released to commemorate our 19th Anniversary, this is a recipe that’s garnered constant rumblings requesting its return, as steady and powerful as the sound of a didgeridoo…
Australia is well-known for being the home of flora and fauna that exist nowhere else on earth. Among these creatures (both creepy and cuddly), you can also encounter some unique and highly sought-after hop varieties. Only in Oz can you find Galaxy, Ella and Vic Secret hops, which lend striking tropical fruit, citrus and peach flavors to this booming behemoth of an IPA. Originally released to commemorate our 19th Anniversary, this is a recipe that’s garnered constant rumblings requesting its return, as steady and powerful as the sound of a didgeridoo…
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8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Pineapple, grapefruit and pungent spruce tip aroma. Golden pour with fluffy initial head. Bitter ass finish with a little booze. Great strong body here. This is a big, potent West Coast beer. Great stuff. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 26 May 2023
at 16:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
I like how Stone is devoting juuuuust enough of its post-corporate takeover beers to the grumpy old hopheads who put it on the map. This pint is bitter as hell, a resinous mix of stone fruit, white grape, melon, and a vicious mineral bite on the back end. Delicious.
Tried
on 22 May 2023
at 02:00
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
32oz crowler pours with a clear copper gold colored body that supports a nice light tan head of foam. The modest aroma offers up citrus, peach, a little white grape and then a floral to kinda pine like hoppiness. The taste delivers similar varied hoppiness with a blend of tangelo and bitter grapefruit, a pulse of pine hop bitterness and then berry to peach to a cranberry like fruitiness. The hop bitterness dominates here with bitter pine, grapefruit and thin rings of bitter floral like hops. Pretty solid offering.
Tried
from Crowler
on 14 May 2023
at 03:17