16th Anniversary IPA
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Special Out of Production|
Score
7.47
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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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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From a 22 oz bottle shared at home. Pours a hazy orange with an off white head. Lemon verbena evident in the floral hop nose. Bold flavors of lemon and citrus. Nicely balanced. Not your average DIPA. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2013
at 16:48
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Caramel malt, orange, spicy lemon, and spruce/mint aroma. Clear amber with a large ivory head. Minty spruce and lemon hops and light biscuit and caramel malt flavor. Full sticky body, low carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2012
at 19:02
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle. Mint, spruce, orange, and light caramel malt aroma. Golden yellow with moderate head. Mint, spruce and light orange-caramel malt flavor. Very hoppy and very unique.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2012
at 19:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle - Aroma is sweet, rich with lemon and tropical fruits, almost candy like. Clear orange with a light head. Lot’s of alcohol and a lemon dish soap, candy quality. Very rich on the palate. Smells great, but too much alcohol and lemon for my taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2012
at 08:03
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from SB cons 2012-12-25 Karlskoga AR: tropical fruits, lemon, mango, pine, grape fruit, ripe grapes, dusty wooden particals AP: wee wee hazy amber orange oily body, medium sized bubbly stouthy orange beige stouty steady head F: fizzy, lemon meat bitterness, amber, english orange marmelade, warming feeling, thick texture, finish is long à lingering most of all lemoncake
Tried
on 25 Dec 2012
at 11:38
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. A very heavy citrusy brew. Taste of citrus oil, lemon juice and pine. Thick and strong.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2012
at 15:34
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bomber bought @ Systembolaget. Pours very hazy orangish golden with a frothy and creamy offwhite head that leaves lots of sticky trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is sweet, fruity and hoppy with biscuits, oily citrus zest, grapefruit juice, oily pine, marmalade, alcohol, lime leaves, lemon balm, resinous wood, crackers and dried apricots. Taste is sweet and bitter with biscuits, crackers, oily freshly grated citrus zest and peal, bitter oranges, grapefruit juice, lime leaves, lemon grass, oily pine, resinous wood, cedar wood, bread, dried apricots and hints of alcohol. Mouthfeel is round, tiny boozy, oily bitter, very tiny astringent and medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet and bitter with crackers, oily pine, bergamot, bitter oranges, grapefruit rinds, lemon grass, resinous wood, bread and hints of alcohol.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2012
at 13:10
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours orange with a white head. Butter and citrus bitterness (cest). Caramel, heavy bitter citrus, cest, burned cramel, pinne needels. Warming alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2012
at 07:23
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Almost clear copper/deep amber liquid with medium off - white head. Aroma of pine, citrus, biscuit, lemon peel, grass, toffee and grapefruit. Maybe a bit too malty for my taste. Taste is light sweet and medium to high bitter with notes of lemons, citrus, lemon peel and toffee. Medium bodied with medium carbonation and a light alcohol burn. Quite allright. A bit astringent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2012
at 12:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Tap East. Clear amber colour thin white head. Big resiny hop aroma. Big hoppy toffee flavour. Lots of grapefruit. Lots of everyrthing with that american empty malt flavour in the middle. Yes lits of hops. Bit of heat on end. Good elements like the grapefruit and it getting me drunk but not quite all together.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Dec 2012
at 03:55