Vertical Epic Ale 04.04.04
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Series Out of Production|
Score
6.90
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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Pours a beautiful golden color, with a small white head. The aroma is breathtaking! Sweet cherries, loads of lemon, and lime zest, sweet fruity candi sugar, and just an overall abundance of sweet fruity esters, just amazing! I could stick my nose in this all day! The flavor is awesome! more of those great fruits! apricots, lemons, limes, cherries, bananas. A great sweet cherry finish. Holy hell this is outstanding. Its like fruit cup in a glass. This has aged VERY well. simply perfect!
Beer5000 (11295) reviewed Vertical Epic Ale 04.04.04 from Stone Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Backlog December 2008. Well stored bottle. Unclear orange body under a big off-white head. Light spicy aroma with hint of fruit and yeast. Taste is quite sweet, malt, caramel, bitterness and some warming alcohol. Medium body and same aftertaste. Nothing extraordinary really, but actually quite nice as it is.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle courtesy of rlgk. Pours hazy reddish orange with a small offwhite head that doesn’t leave any trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell mostly oxidised with biscuits, raisins, leather, cardboard, prunes, dried apples and pears, minerals and hints of lemon peal. Taste is tiny sweet, tiny bitter and oxidised. Mouthfeel is soft, round, tiny dry, very tiny tart and medium bodied. Finish is surprisingly pleasantly oxidised. Kind impressed this is holding up as it does.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Vertical Epic Ale 04.04.04 from Stone Brewing 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
On tap at Flying Saucer for 12-12-12. Pours a clear orange gold with paperthin wht head that diminishes to nothing. Aroma is faint yeast and clove. Medium mouthfeel with strong banana and lime, light booze, held up well.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Vertical Epic Ale 04.04.04 from Stone Brewing 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Draft on 12/12/12. Cloudy golden color. Aroma is an odd combination of peppermint and fruit that grows less pleasant as it warms. Taste is similar.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
22 oz bomber on 04.04.14 from Enniskillen. Nose is light bubblegum, banana, and spices. Clear amber with a small beige head. Flavor is lightly sweet, spicy, with only a slight bit of oxidation. Still drinking very nicely after 10 years.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle sampled at RBSG. From notes. Banana with citrus and belgian yeast. Still pretty good.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Vertical Epic Ale 04.04.04 from Stone Brewing 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
22 oz. bottle, sent from St Fun (thanks a lot, Josh), pours a cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma of citrus, perfume, some floral notes, and a bit of oxidation. Flavour brings out notes of perfume, citrus fruits, some floral notes, and light spices. Somewhere between a saison and a light Belgian strong ale. Past its prime for sure, but not too oxidized. Good stuff.