Go To IPA
(has 1 batch)
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
7.18
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Since Day One, we've been abundantly forthright and fully transparent about our lust for hops. It's led us to craft many an IPA, most of them imperial—some intense for their time and all timeless in their intensity. For Stone Go To IPA, we embrace our hop obsession in a new way, funneling an abundance of lupulin-borne bitterness into a session IPA that delivers all the fruity, piney character of a much bigger IPA. To accomplish this, we employ hop bursting, a technique wherein an irrational amount of hops is added during the final phase of the brewing process to bring out extreme flavors and aromas while also imparting a burst of desirably pleasant bitterness. The result is an alpha-acid-rich beer that fans can enjoy more of without missing out on the assertive hop character you, like us, crave. So, sit back and go two with your new everyday go-to IPA and bask along with us in the glory of the almighty hop.
This beer employed the hop-bursting technique, which in essence is a hopping method where all or most of the bitterness in the beer comes from late hop additions in the brewhouse, like at the end of boil and in the whirlpool, instead of the more traditional approach where most of the hop bitterness comes from earlier additions at the start of the kettle boil. The result is a beautifully aromatic beer with substantial but somewhat mellow bitterness. Hop bursting also enhances the flavor retention of the hops, and combined with the dry hop, creates a very intense and complex hop flavor.
This beer employed the hop-bursting technique, which in essence is a hopping method where all or most of the bitterness in the beer comes from late hop additions in the brewhouse, like at the end of boil and in the whirlpool, instead of the more traditional approach where most of the hop bitterness comes from earlier additions at the start of the kettle boil. The result is a beautifully aromatic beer with substantial but somewhat mellow bitterness. Hop bursting also enhances the flavor retention of the hops, and combined with the dry hop, creates a very intense and complex hop flavor.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml can, 4.7 % abv, shared with Finn at Cafe Sånn. Bubbly white head resting over a hazy, warm golden body. Spotty lacing. Rich fresh citrus nose, lemony hops to the fore. Fresh and ripe citrus taste. Dry, hop bitter tail. Quite refreshing and moreish (Tromsø 07.10.2016).
Tried
from Can
on 23 Oct 2016
at 13:41
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Can, 0.33 l - brewed in Berlin - canned 04 Aug 2016, from CM Ruoholahti, 20161007) The beer poured golden and lightly hazy. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had fruitiness and tangerine. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, pineapple, tangerine, grass, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was hoppy and bitter. A tasty hoppy pale ale with low ABV.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Oct 2016
at 15:16
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can sourced from Toft Vin, Copenhagen (canned 1 month ago in Berlin) - pours a golden orange colour with thin white head. Fruity and malty aroma and taste, with a pleasing medley of citrus and tropical fruit, fresh juicy grapefruit, lemon, nice pale malty base, lovely stuff, goes down a treat.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Sep 2016
at 11:31
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. A golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of lemons, straw, hops, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of hops, malt, citrus fruits, and straw, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Sep 2016
at 04:01