Mocha IPA
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.50
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A Style-defying Double IPA with Cacao & Coffee
Clearly, style lines have been crossed. Is it half-IPA, half-stout? Not quite. It’s definitely all IPA, but it’s also the best of both styles, making this love child of a beer simply just a beautiful, pleasure-seeking meld of imperial IPA and mocha indulgence. How did we come up with this inexplicably delicious creation? Well, that doesn’t really matter. What matters is that it exists and that it’s here for you now, thanks to our deliberate disregard for brewing norms. Some things are not meant to be known, just enjoyed...thoroughly.
Liberty Station Brewing Manager Kris Ketcham was inspired by two beers to create this wonderful IPA. Aleman / Two Brothers / Stone DayMan Coffee IPA and Stochasticity Project Master of Disguise golden stout triggered an inspiration in Kris to brew an IPA with both coffee and cocoa influence. When he first brewed this in 2015, it was an instant smash hit. And now we’ve found a great home for it!
Clearly, style lines have been crossed. Is it half-IPA, half-stout? Not quite. It’s definitely all IPA, but it’s also the best of both styles, making this love child of a beer simply just a beautiful, pleasure-seeking meld of imperial IPA and mocha indulgence. How did we come up with this inexplicably delicious creation? Well, that doesn’t really matter. What matters is that it exists and that it’s here for you now, thanks to our deliberate disregard for brewing norms. Some things are not meant to be known, just enjoyed...thoroughly.
Liberty Station Brewing Manager Kris Ketcham was inspired by two beers to create this wonderful IPA. Aleman / Two Brothers / Stone DayMan Coffee IPA and Stochasticity Project Master of Disguise golden stout triggered an inspiration in Kris to brew an IPA with both coffee and cocoa influence. When he first brewed this in 2015, it was an instant smash hit. And now we’ve found a great home for it!
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. I love it when breweries experiment and try and come up with something new. This is another fine example of that. Great job stone. This is a really good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 06:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From tap at BeerTemple, Amsterdam. Aroma has big mocha up front with milk chocolate and coffee. Bittering hops in the finish. Flavour is lightly sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium. Lots of tasty mocha, not many typical fruity IPA flavours besides the bitterness. Tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Feb 2025
at 15:34
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Kettner, February 2024. Paired with a Girl Scout Samosa cookie. Clear, copper, beautiful brew. Thin lace. Earthy, malt forward yet still thin. Unfamiliar foliage, cooked note. Heavy grapefruit pith on the tail. Kinda good?
Tried
on 13 Apr 2024
at 02:15
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draft at FotM 6-22-16
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Feb 2019
at 01:17
8/10
Backlog
Tried
on 06 Sep 2018
at 09:33
8/10
Backlog
Tried
on 06 Sep 2018
at 09:33
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Had this once or twice before, loved it then, love it now. Pours a lovely shade of red copper, little to no head. Aroma is fruity coffee and sweet malts. Flavours are surprisingly complex, IIPA with some booze and hoppiness and loads of coffee. This is unusual but it completely hits my flavour button! I really love this. Beautiful balance of flavours too, and at 9%! Amazing stuff.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2018
at 21:20
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2016, [ Great British Beer Festival 2016 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Stone Mocha IPA ].Clear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, mocha, light coffee, moderate hoppy, orange, frutiy hosp, sweet hops - sweet coffee. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, sweet coffee - sweet hops, pale malt, frutiy hops. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20160809] 7-3-8-3-15
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Mar 2018
at 15:42
7/10
Hazy amb bod sml wht head. Coffee floral arma. Coffee toffee floral resiny flav. Med bod mod carb. 8/3/7/3/15 3.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2018
at 23:13
7/10
From bottle. Wet coffee aromas. Slightly creamy mouthfeel. Well-balanced, with vanilla notes, strong coffee flavours and well-hidden booziness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2018
at 04:53