Stone 8th Anniversary Ale

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Rated in June 2006. 22oz bomber pours with an off white head. Aroma of sweet maltiness, toffee and a whiff of hops. The taste is dominated by a couple layer of malt: sweet, roasty, biscuit like and maple syrup. A certain fruitiness and hop bitterness rounded out the flavor for me.

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

Pours barely translucent chocolate brown with a nice beige head. Aroma offers roast malt, caramel and toffee tones. Flavor features roast malt, toffee and chocolate tones, rather delicious. Mouthfeel presents fair body and fair fizz. Happy any anniversary!

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

Bottled (thanks jjpm74!). Reddish amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is bready toffeeish along with some winelike notes. Oak and vanilla as well. Some slight alcohol. Flavour is raisins, bread, quite grassy along with some alcohol and spices. Has aged well!

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

4 years later can't taste the influence of the oak anymore. it was a pretty drinkable beer, but as the years have mellowed the already lower than normal hop prescence, it was good but nothing really special. maybe a different story when it was fresher.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Pours a heavily hazy dark brown with a yellowish tan head. The aroma is a heavy maltiness with a minty note of aged hops floating on top. A bit of shortbread from the malt. Fairly straitforward, but this has aged excellently.

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

Thanks J for splitting this one! Healthy beer.... A murky leather brown color, a small head. A spiced bready aroma... It has some quadrupel qualities. Full, filling mouthfeel, Fine bubbles...... Flavors like damp forest floor, caramel, dry coffee roastedness, a mellow sweetness, vegetal/savory. Those oak chips come through and some leafy hops in the end with a mild Hearty bitterness... Has done well with age..good american strong!

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

took me a while to find this, but i did!!! it looks like a dark cloudy brown, almost like mud, with little head. well it stands up to its name STONE strong brown ale. i can smell some spices in it. nice medium/heavy body. taste a lot of hops and wheat. it has this woodsy/earthy taste to it. it has a coffee bean taste to it. great beer and happy to finaly have it!!! thanks jlozier~

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

Toasty and mildy nutty and roasty aroma, very grainy with a bit of wood. Dull brown with a bit of haze and a wisp of foam. Surprisingly well attenuated and not sticky mouthfeel with nice, soft carbonation. Nice, big brown ale flavor, some alcohol heat, a bit of cocoa, nuttiness and lots of toasty malt. A good offering from Stone that has cellared quite well.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Thanks doulos31 for this one. Poured a dark brown withalmost no head or lacing. Aroma was a funky caramel mostly and some nuttyness to it. Flavor was overwelmed by caramel, as it warmed i did get some chocolate and nuttyness. Not the best from stone by far but okay.

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

There is a lot going on in this beer. Poured a dark ruby brown with smallish head, but nice lacing. Aroma and taste was predominantly caramel. As it warmed, a whole lot of other flavors came out which balanced nicely...some smokey flavor, some chocolate and a little nut. This was a good beer, but it was a bit thin and weak. If only it were more rich, like the AleSmith Decadence, which I had right after this (similar but BETTER). This scores pts for me for being out of the normal realm of style. Enjoyable.