Stone Brewing Go To IPA

Go To IPA

 

Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Session Regular
Score
7.14
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 65 Ticks: 343
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.
 

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7.5

California ☀️, take me there! For a couple beers. But gotta be back for work here tomorrow. Lol

Tried from Can on 14 Jan 2024 at 20:58


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

En copa Teku, color amarillo claro ligeramente anaranjado, espuma compacta bien conservada. Aroma muy rico a lúpulo herbal con matices cítricos (mandarina, pomelo, naranja...), toque resinoso. En boca es ligera con buen fondo de malta clara, y superficie bien lupulada, amarga, notas herbales, resinosas y destellos cítricos de todos los colores juguetean en la boca...Muy disfrutable, el postgusto es buenísimo, deja un excelente recuerdo en el paladar durante bastante tiempo.

Tried from Can on 28 Nov 2023 at 23:00


6

Tried on 14 Jun 2023 at 20:57


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Fruchtnoten nicht zu extrem, nicht zu süß. Malz spielt aber trotzdem eine Rolle. Deutlich florale Nuancen, die mich an Matetee erinnern. Hopfenbitter im Rahmen dessen was man von einem IPA erwartet, der Alkoholgehalt von lediglich 4,7 % allerdings nicht.

Tried on 27 Nov 2022 at 19:59


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

355ml can - Pours a clear pale golden colour with a small frothy near-white head that settled. Aroma is citrusy, straw and pine. A moderately sweet and moderately bitter taste, orange, grapefruit, pine and light grassy flavours with a hoppy bitter finish.

Tried from Can on 06 Nov 2022 at 18:40


7

Ordentlich piney-ge Hopfenwucht für ein Session

Tried from Can on 03 Apr 2022 at 21:33


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Smell-weak hops, grass. Foam- thin, hops, weak grass. Head is large, white color, sticks. Appearance- simple can with the devil, what I understand is brewery mascot. Clear yellow amber, weak carbonation, slight cloudiness to beer. From - pint Price: 1,29 euros Taste- hops, citrus, grass, weak bitter tones. Fairly neutral and drinkable. Weak hops and citrus in the aftertaste.

Tried from Can on 02 Apr 2022 at 16:42


Tried on 23 Nov 2021 at 13:53


5

Tried from Can on 10 Jul 2021 at 13:41


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

0.355l can. Hazy golden body with a white head. Aroma of grass, passion fruit, citruses and blueberries. Taste of grapefruit, grass, blueberries, peach and gooseberry. For a brief period it's sweet, but then hops rule. Very nice IPA.

Tried from Can on 24 Jun 2021 at 19:04