Stone Coast 420 IPA
Sunday River Brewing Company in Bethel, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.70
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Reviewed from old notes.
This was poured into a pint glass at the brewpub.
The appearance was a fairly nice looking glossy/hazy and somewhat golden to amber-ed orange color. There was a light foamy stringy lacing sticking and then sliding into the beer.
The smell had a super nice aromatic citric/slightly piney aromas.
The taste was there. It took the citrus with the pine to make a fairly nice bittersweet combination to taste.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat there but honestly, nothing overbearing and nothing far out.
Overall, I say this was a good IPA I could bang again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Nice hazy golden orange coloured body with a light amber tint and a frothy off-white head. Aroma of fresh hops, sweet sugars, oranges, grasses and green apples. Medium-bodied; Strong grassy hops with some floral hop quality and a plentiful potency of malt and caramel. Aftertaste shows more malt than hops and not a lot of hops at all. Overall, I thought this one would be more hoppy and well-rounded, but this one tasted like an APA. I sampled this 350 mL bottle purchased fresh from Oliver’s Beverage in Albany, New York on 08-October-2006.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12 oz bottle received as a gift. Rerate from later in the 6-pack, as the first couple bottles each seemed to have at least a mild infection going. Pours orange amber with a large, bubbly head that stops me from finishing the pour for over ten minutes. Appearance is getting marked down due to the out-of-control head. Aroma is citrus hops, grassy hops, a bit of caramel, very sweet. Flavors of citrus and grassy hops along with pale malts and a little apricot. Needs quite a bit more hops to be a good IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours amber into a shaker. Off-white micro head tophats and pyramids rim and does not recede. Pine and resin aromas. Sweet caramel upfront which turns to a sour, chalky, lasting resin/grapefruit finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
This beer came to me in my beer club - I am not familiar with the brewer. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy dark golden color with a medium sized yellow-tan head. The aroma is sweet fruity and piney hops with a hint of pepper. The flavor is sweet and spicy grapefruit and pine. There is a weird tangy off flavor in the finish that detracts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hazy orange/ amber with an off-white head. Malt dominated aroma with good supportive grapefruit hops. Malt dominated flavor profile with supportive hop bitterness. A touch of saltiness detracts somewhat.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
2005 bottle consumed 6/22/2005. Pale copper, light peachy/rose hues. Clear, with fine bubbles rising and just tons of fluffy white head, wonderfully retained and providing sheets of lacing. Aroma smells of pale malt, light crystally malts and toasted grains. Just a hint of fruit esters (peach, tangerine, apricots; mainly peach though). Hops are soily and lightly fruity, but quite subdued. Flavor has minty, herbally hops with sweet caramel, very sticky and well-extracted. Light sourness coming from somewhere, is it the hops? or the malt? Perhaps caramunich, or just some stale hops, not sure. As it breaths I get a full-on soily, lightly spicy, very sweaty hops flavor. Must be goldings, or just some really old American type. Low carbonation, no sediment at the bottom, but I still don’t think it’s heavily filtered, and the lacing can attest to that as well. Smooth, lightly sticky, in a pleasing way. Medium body. Still don’t know where that light sourness is coming from. Reminds me of wheat dough and olive oil. Whatever the case, this is a very drinkable, unique interpretation. 100 IPAs and I still can’t figure out the hops. I’m afraid that’s one aspect of beer that’s quite lost on me. . .
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Orangey-amber. Low carbonation is visible. Minimal aroma, though, but I do find some nice woody, berryish notes. Hoppy, fruity (berry, apricot) body. Bitterness starts muted but then lingers. About right for an IPA - right down the middle, though elevated slightly for me because I dig the low carbo (did I ever tell you about the famous low-carbo batch of Sailor Hagar's Narwhal Pale Ale? Oh man, fucking nectar. That was THE showpiece beer for BC Kent Goldings (RIP) and my first real introduction to Gary Lohin's skills...damn when's his new brewery going to open). Oh yeah, back to Stone Coast 420, a fresh-tasting, quenching and thoroughly enjoyable IPA.