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Stone 10th Anniversary IPA close-up
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Stone 10th Anniversary IPA close-up

Stone 10th Anniversary IPA

STYLE
Double India Pale Ale
ABV
10%
IBUs
N/A

Stone 10th Anniversary IPA harkens back to our earlier Anniversary Ales, with abundant hopping at many stages of the brewing process. Appropriately, the aroma is over the top, with pronounced piney and resiny hop flavors combined with tropical fruit esters and more subtle notes of toasted malts and alcohol. Our Stone 10th Anniversary Ale weighs in at 10% alcohol by volume (perfect for a 10th anniversary beer), and has a little more color and malt character than our other IPAs. In addition to using the new Summit hop variety in the brewhouse to provide the powerful bitterness, we went back through our records and found some of our favorite hops over the years, and used them to flavor this brew, including Chinook, Crystal, and large doses of Simcoe in the dry hop to provide a huge, complex, piney, fruity and floral hop character. This is a colossal beer, big in every sense: hoppy, malty, rich, and strong! Right up our alley.

ABOUT THIS BEER

Release Date
August 21, 2006
Beeradvocate
95

Tasting Notes

Appearance
Deep copper/amber with a light tan, dense head.
Aroma
Really hoppy, with pronounced piney hop aromatics combined with layers of pineapple and mango tropical fruit.
Flavor
Wow! Intensely hoppy, alcohol and bitter with some nice complexity provided by lightly roasted malt.
Palate
Full bodied, bitter, with some hotness from the alcohol.
Overall
This beer delivers on everything: hops, malt and flavor! We hope everyone is as stoked about this beer as we were when we first tasted it.
Provided by
Mitch Steele
,
Brewmaster