Delicious IPA
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
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7.11
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Editor’s Note: Originally tap only and listed at 8.3% abv and 116 IBUs.
While our beers are many and diverse, yet unified by overarching boldness, India pale ales are our undeniable bread and butter. We’ve brewed many over the past 18 years, from double-down bitter bombs to piney session sippers. Whether it’s big IBUs or a precise ABV, there’s usually a target we’re shooting for. The same is true of this, our latest IPA, but we gave zero thought to any acronyms. This one was all about packing as much unique and, you guessed it, delicious flavor into a glass as humanly possible, regardless of oomph or octane. This intensely citrusy, beautifully bitter beer is worthy of the simple-yet-lordly title of Stone Delicious IPA. Lemondrop and El Dorado hops combine to bring on a magnificent lemon candy-like flavor that’s balanced by hop spice. It’s unlike anything we’ve tasted in nearly two decades of IPA experimentation, and another lupulin-laced creation we’re excited to introduce to hopheads everywhere.
Bottle description: Great beer is for everyone and anyone with the good taste to recognize it, not just a niche group like us über beer geeks. So, when we developed this pleasantly bitter, deliciously citrusy, hop-driven IPA, we took it as an opportunity to go a step further and do something we’d spent over a year researching and perfecting: creating a beer that makes it possible for nearly everyone to experience our aggressive, no-holds-barred approach to craft brewing. It’s a flavorful, cutting-edge, modern-day IPA for everyone. Lemondrop and El Dorado hops provide plenty of fruity citrus character and a burst of hop zing that sings on the palate. We’re proud to present it to those who already know us for our IPA prowess and to those who, so far, have only heard the legends.
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Adelholzener (1778) ticked Delicious IPA from Stone Brewing 3 months ago
Gluepot (959) reviewed Delicious IPA from Stone Brewing 4 months ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 17
A slightly subdued Stone IPA, but a slightly subdued Stone IPA is far from being a lightweight! Lovely pronounced aroma on cracking the bottle. Citrus and grapefruit hops blend well with substantial and grainy malts. The hop-forward taste profile is classic Stone. There is only a hint of orange rind complementing the citrus and grapefruit hops. Sweetness in the malt brings the taste profile back into the \"refreshing\" category.
caribou43 (2255) reviewed Delicious IPA from Stone Brewing 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
For us, it was a good ipa, solid, boozy and sweet with a flavor of orange, toffee, cereal, smooth, some spices giving a wind of autumn, bitter, citrus, not a surprise from this serious brewery, 05.05.22, drinking it at Epalinges.
gave a cheers!
Maverick (5074) reviewed Delicious IPA from Stone Brewing 8 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pretty gold orange pour from bottle. Lots of tropical fruit up front. Hops bite. Pretty well done.
tnkw01 (4059) reviewed Delicious IPA from Stone Brewing 10 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. One of the better tasting IPAs that stone makes. Not anything special but overall not bad.
PLohbauer (1111) ticked Delicious IPA from Stone Brewing 10 months ago
RB score 3.45
Robinvboyer (8037) reviewed Delicious IPA from Stone Brewing 11 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the lcbo. Hazy orange pour, huge pillowy white head. Lots of pine resins with some solid orange, and grapefruit zest aromas. Being low gluten im not getting much in aroma for malts. Light biscuit, some light cereals.... But minimal, the hops dominate. The high alcohol surprised me and this is a little boozy. Finish is medium bitter, more pine resins and citrus zest. Another great ipa from Stone.
tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Delicious IPA from Stone Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Pub-up-beerstore, Wolvega. Aroma is resinous hop with malt, some grapefruit and citrus, pine resin. Moderate sweet flavour with a good bitterness. Body is medium. Nice and classic.
dragnet101 (5184) reviewed Delicious IPA from Stone Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can from lowcostbeer.com, 4 months past BBE. Hazy amber-gold, small white head which lasts, some lacing. Aroma of orange and lime rind, caramel, grapefruit, light booze note. Taste is malty, caramel, bitter orange, grapefruit, tingly hops. Quite bitter throughout. Medium to full bodied, soft carbonation. Not the freshest but still a good IPA.
Botrytis (1180) reviewed Delicious IPA from Stone Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Hellbernsteinfarben und opaltrüb mit überschaubarer feiner Perlage. Die weiße, feinporige Schaumkrone zeigt sich flaumig und gut haltbar. In der Nase macht sich einerseits eine gute, honigartige Malznote, andererseits schöne, reife Fruchtnoten von Zitrusfrüchten, Steinobst und Exotik (Kiwi, Drachenfrucht, Maracuja) breit. Der Antrunk kommt breit malzig, weich- und feinrezent, relativ wuchtig und dicht, aber auch leicht süßlich reiffruchtig und gut herb. Der Körper zeigt eine gute Fülle, sehr feine und weiche Rezenz, eine cremige Textur und eine leichte Trockenheit. Aromatisch sind es die breitmalzigen, honigartigen und reiffruchtigen Noten von Zitrus, Steinobst, Kiwi, Drachenfrucht und Maracuja, die sich am Gaumen ausbreiten. Im Geschmack ist es eine leichte Süße, welche die 80 Bittereinheiten sehr gut aufnimmt und einen Großteil davon schluckt. Man sieht also, dass diese Bitterkeit auch dringend nötig ist, um einer möglichen Schwerfälligkeit bei so einem extraktreichen Bier vorzubeugen. Letztendlich ist es auch genau diese Harmonie, die dieses IPA trotz der hohen und vielschichtigen Aromatik so ausgewogen unglaublich rund macht. Letztendlich spiegelt sich das auch trotz 7,7 % Alkohol in einer unwahrscheinlich guten Drinkability wieder. Von diesem Bier würde man ohne viel Gezeter noch das eine oder andere trinken. Im Nachtrunk halten die malzigen und fruchtigen Noten gemeinsam mit einer gut mitspielenden Hopfenbittere sehr sehr lange an und wandeln sich nach gefühlten fünf Minuten in eine zart trockene und knackige Hopfenbittere. Aber da will man sofort wieder den nächsten Schluck! Mein Fazit: Also das ist schon ein IPA auf ganz hohem Niveau.