Stone 16th Anniversary IPA

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Rated in Sept. 2012. Growler from Whole Foods pours clear copper with tan head and spotty lacing. The aroma offers up a mix of malt sweetened tropical fruit and a thin floral hop sense with a fleeting bitterness at the end of the draw there somewhere. The taste is rich with flavor hop goodness consisting of sweet candy like mango that slowly pulls up into hop bitterness and floral hop notes. This has loads of hop flavor that’s very hop extract like, which is ‘all good’ as far as I’m concerned. Not my favorite Stone Anniversary offering (the 10th was my fav!) but tasty nonetheless.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Looks like a ten to me. Damn fruit fly seems to like it as well. Orange /amber colour with a never ending foam white head. Good amount of lacing. Aroma is sweet, lemon and pine. Candy flavour followed by lemon citrus some spiciness and a bitter dry finish. The mouthfeel is full bodied, smooth and oily with good carbonation. Although very drinkable, it is a sipper. Off tomorrow, no need to sip.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

This could have been more, but wasn't feeling it as much as some of their other specialty IPAs. Perhaps a little too much citrus, but at the same time a little too sweet. Hard to explain...maybe not blended or balanced the best. I forgot that it was 10%, so for some reason drank the entire bottle thinking it was upper 6s to mid 7%. Cloudy medium orange appearance. Alcohol is hidden well at least, and had a good buzz. A nice drinkable DIPA to share, but not really something that I would recommend.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Very lemon forward in the nose, a bit too cloudy but really nice froth white head. A spicy rye type flavor, touch of pine and lemon, a bit of earthy greenness. A nice beer but I just had "best by ipa" so this really doesn't quite compare.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Light amber/orange pour, nice tight head, pretty lacing. Overabundance of lemons in the aroma, lemon zest, Lemonhead candy, Lemon fresh Joy, it just overpowers anything else for me. I know that there is more in there, but the lemon overpowers everything for me including the flavor. Just too damn lemony and syrupy for me. Usually I love Stone, but this was a big mess and a big miss. No.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Another hop bomb from Stone. Maybe my palate needs a reset because the alcohol in these big beers seems to trump any subtleties from the hops and malt. Plenty of grapefruit, lemon and earthy hops in the aroma. Rye spiciness barely peeks through in flavor due to the booziness. Boozy, bitter finish.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Beer pours a pretty standard deep, rust orange color with about two fingers of light khaki colored head. The head quickly sunk into a thin layer but was nice enough to leave some good lacing. Over the top tropical fruit notes as well as plenty of lemon as well, and a touch of sweet caramel malt with some rye spiciness. Overall, a lot is going on here in the nose.Flavors of ample citrus hops flavor throughout. Besides the rye, not much else going on malt-wise. Finish is mildly bitter with a kick of boozy heat. Some warmth from the 10% but it didn't hinder my enjoyment of the beer. Overall a nice anniversary beer, thats worth a try.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Yet another (I)IPA form Stone...served up with fresh sirloin hamburgers off the grill. Pours more of a brownish orange than the usuual bright, golden color I was expecting. Ton of pine resin hop stickiness. Some caramel, grass and pine sap in the aroma. Quite a burn as it goes down. Finish is bitter and burn. Can't find any of the lemon in there. This is pretty much what I expected from from a Stone special release, but I don't think I'll be picking up more of them.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Aroma is VERY hoppy - not quite evergreen, more woody than resiny, but seriously hoppy nonetheless, with an undertone of sour orange. It pours a beautiful clear coppery amber with a fairly thick pale copper head. Extremely hoppy flavor has strong evergreen and woody notes but minimal bitterness, as well as, undertones of citrus and rye and a hint of honey. Full body has plenty of tingle and life, leaving a fizzy, hoppy, slightly sweet finish. An excellent Imperial IPA - catch it before it flies away!

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

amber .. good foam .. . lacing is like punching oneself in the arm .. . nice hop presence .. . crisp sappiness, very good- love the subtle lemony vibe .. . a tasty brew, thank you judy! .. . . well, its good for the garden.. - .. do you have a big one? .. - .. not that big.....