Stone Brewing Enjoy After 10.31.15

Enjoy After 10.31.15

 

Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Sour / Wild Special
Score
6.59
ABV: 7.0% IBU: - Ticks: 1
What you hold in your hand is an experiment. This IPA is spiked at bottling with Brettanomyses, a wild yeast that, over time, brings about charmingly unpredictable complexities of spice, funk, acidity and more. The operative words in our beer-cellering thesis are "over time." For those of you who are in patient or like to experiment, the earliest we recommend sampling this beer is 10.31.14. the beer won't be fully carbonated until that date. Ideally, you'll want to cellar the beer up to—or beyond—the Enjoy After date to help it reach its full evolutionary potential. At that point some facets of the Brett characteristics will have mellowed while others will have become more profound; it all matures into a fascinating and delicious culmination. Individual results will vary… and that's both the beauty and the intent behind this beer.
 

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6.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

.75 liter bottle. Wow! First time a cork just blew out of the bottle as I was undoing the cage! Luckily I was not in the way, and I did not get a gusher. A lot of foam in the pour, that settled to some suds on a darkish gold, hazy body. Big smell of brett sourness, overwhelming anything else that might be in it. The taste offers the more traditional IPA bitterness, against light malt. The brett's sour apple and horseblanket linger on the palate after the beer is swallowed. Halfway through the bottle, it still pours with a lot of foam. Brett taste remains dominant. But the mouthfeel is thin as a "regular" beer, so it can be pretty easy drinking. Another bottle from a new friend who was thinning out his cellar for a move.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2025 at 03:36