16th Anniversary IPA

Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸

IPA - Triple Special Out of Production

Score

7.47

ABV: 10.0%

IBU: 85

Ticks: 89

This year our brewing team was inspired by some exotic-ish additions of the lemony persuasion. Yes, it's a double IPA (Can you really say you're surprised?), but as we strive to do with all our Stone Anniversary Ales of the let's-take-this-IPA-in-a-new-direction variety, we've brewed up a Stone-worthy divergence from tradition. The amount of rye malt we used isn't quite enough to warrant the appellation "Rye IPA," but it still adds hints of spiciness that contrast deliciously with the tropical fruit flavors and aromas of the Amarillo and Calypso hops. Add a few European specialty malts, some lemon verbena, and three more hop varieties to the mix, and you have a highly complex brew melding both bitter and fruity hop notes with rich toasted malt character punctuated by nuances of spicy rye and subtle lemon.

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7.8

Maverick (5074) reviewed 16th Anniversary IPA from Stone Brewing 8 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Dusty medium brown pour from alewife queens. Light head lacing. Aroma is resiny. Grapefruits and lemony pinesol.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:23

7.2

mcm1 (3805) ticked 16th Anniversary IPA from Stone Brewing 6 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Early rating from Beer Buddy

Tried on 05 Dec 2019 at 02:13

7.3

tokyobeerdrinker (9001) reviewed 16th Anniversary IPA from Stone Brewing 6 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Tap at Watering Hole. Clear amber colour, small off white head. Aroma lots of fruit, bit of lemon washing up liquid. Some tropical, and nice maltiness, brown bread. Taste similar washing up liquid, slightly soapy, lemon, not as bitter as expected. Finish is almost biscuity, but with lemon and grapefruit bitterness. Quite drinkable and a bit different, but strangely unsure how much I like it. Enjoyed it, but don't really want another.

Tried from Draft on 09 Sep 2019 at 15:53

Martin Lindström (24380) ticked 16th Anniversary IPA from Stone Brewing 7 years ago

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Tried on 06 Sep 2018 at 09:31

ericsc (2969) ticked 16th Anniversary IPA from Stone Brewing 10 years ago

Yeah yeah, enjoy fresh, blah blah blah. Still really good. Lemony and a bit of rye

Tried on 24 Apr 2015 at 17:01

Cooksons (1037) ticked 16th Anniversary IPA from Stone Brewing 11 years ago

Tried on 04 Oct 2014 at 16:35

6.8

gunnfryd (21926) reviewed 16th Anniversary IPA from Stone Brewing 12 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Golden-orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is orange, lemon, malt, hop. Flavour is orange, lemon, malt, hop, pine, grass. OK/Nice beer.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2014 at 21:33

Svesse (15730) reviewed 16th Anniversary IPA from Stone Brewing 12 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

(Bottle) Hazy amber colour with lasting, frothy, off-white head, leaving traces of lacing. Fruity, hoppy nose with citrus, tropical fruit, apricots, pine needles, orange marmalade, rye bread, mango, passion fruit and hints of fresh ginger. Malty, fruity hoppy taste with notes of lemon peel, grapefruit, orange marmalade, resin, apricots, pine needles, rye bread, tropical fruit and an impressive citric, resinous bitterness in the finish. Almost full body, with soft and chewy malt. Quite sweet. Solid and impressive DIPA (as expected from these guys). Lovely beer!

Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2014 at 13:54

7.4

Beerfest5 (1972) reviewed 16th Anniversary IPA from Stone Brewing 12 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Another DIPA from Stone, amazing how they find new ways to brew a big hoppy ale, but they do, credit to them. Nice aroma, massively citrusy, great color and lacing. Tropical fruit is first and foremost in the flavor, really nice, almost New Zealand IPA like. Yum

Tried on 21 Jan 2014 at 05:26

7.3

fonefan (84534) reviewed 16th Anniversary IPA from Stone Brewing 12 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle 22fl.oz.[ Courtesy of my Secret Winter Santa ]. Clear medium to dark orange colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, herbs, spicy hops, lemen grass, eucalyptus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, spicy hops, peppery, hoppy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20131123]

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2013 at 02:48