Stone Crime

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

Rated in Jan. 2014. Expensive 50cl bottle pours with a murky deep copper body and has an amber colored core and supports a tan head of foam. The aroma pulses with chili meat and heat and a sort of a fruity nearly sweet smelling chili madness. Wow! Behind that I get modest levels of oak and bourbon. The chili peppers are just big and bruising up front and rich as well. If you love peppers this aroma is for you. The taste starts with a flush of sweet maltiness and then steams into an avalanche of chili pepper complexity that takes over the experience. This has big bold chili pepper meat that slides smoothly into chili pepper heat that burns about mid palate straight into the throat. Here and there mild notes of caramel and toffee come to the surface with faint echoes of oak and briefly sweet bourbon. Holy Hell! This is something. It is full big brash rich flavorful and hurtful chili pepper. So now this has set the plate to start digging into the Punishment as it feels that this beer has already wrecked and somewhat numbed the palate. This is going to be fun trying these back to back. Great experience.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Had at DeFalcos at the space city sparger thing .. brown .very mild foam .. . just mostly getting peppers and heat, light wood and caramel .. too hot to be getting anything complex. pass on this and just buy tobasco and drink that .. . .

my cousin jeff died today. sent flowers to the family with a little card saying "jeff is dead" so they know what the flowers are for

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 4

A beer that makes no sense in the fact that one or even 3 people can't finish the bottle. It is very hot to the point of making it impossible to finish. In a sample pour it makes sense as the base beer is very well made and the peppers are big and powerful. For the style it a good beer but in the end its just too hot. Worth trying but you need friends.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 3

Pours a bubbly clear chestnut with a thick and fluffy pale buff head. Malty flavor has a definite peppery overtone, almost like pepper jack cheese - maybe a wee bit too peppery. I’m not averse to peppers, but in beer? Well, the next phase will decide that. Flavor is - i yi yi yi yi, did I just drink beer, or El Diablo hot sauce? Sorry, but the peppers are too much - they definitely ruin an otherwise good beer. I’m afraid this is a drain pour. Drat - and I have so enjoyed everything else that I have tried from Stone Brewing. :(

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

Uh...well...they were NOT screwing around with this beer. I LOVE hot stuff. Peppers, sauces, whatever. The initial aroma out of the bottle and at first pour, though, scared me a little. While I still think this could have been better with a little restraint, I did enjoy it. However, the bar had been set VERY VERY high with the previous Scotch barreled/Stone Farm versions of Crime (& Punishment). This was way way hotter. It took some time, and some woek, for the barrel, or the base beer, to really make an appearance. I could feel the barrel before I could taste it. It did open up, but was still very heavily pepper dominated, with oak, bourbon, a carmelly fruity sweetness, and hops all just making a guest appearance. Good, especially for this pepper lover, but I gotta admit, I was hoping for pure excellence, based on the prior release. Stay away from this if you don't automatically order "nitro" when that is an option. You've been warned. I have two bottles, but will not buy more at the high price. :(

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

500ml bottle -

If you don't like spice/heat, especially in your beer stay far away from this. Sweet chili aroma. Deep caramel chili flavor. It's hot. And sweet. I liked it. I got no bourbon/oak at all. Heat and sweet.