Stone Go To IPA

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

Rated March 2014. Growler pours with a deep gold body that supports a white head. The aroma is nice and juicy with orange and tangerine mixed with lesser amounts of spicy hop onion like dankness and a sliver of lime. Nice indeed. The taste begins with a pleasing mix of hop flavor and hop bitterness coming from juicy and bitter tangerine, clementine and orange citrus hoppiness. Behind all of the citrus notes are thin layers of malts and spicy slightly onion like dank hoppiness. Solid brew where the body has plenty of heft to hold it together. Yum.

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

A yellow color with a white head. Aroma contains some pine and citrus. The flavor is hoppy with some oranges and lemons. Not much malt in this and a dry finish. Overall a good session IPA.

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

Pours a slight hazy golden colour with a frothy warm cap, huge, very long lasting with beautiful foamy lacing. Big aromas of citrus, like squeezing the hell out of grapefruit, orange peel and mixing a little of their juices. Same great taste, a slight milder, but with real bite in the end with the dryness. Wow! This is quite the session IPA. One of the best I've tried. Wish we could get these year round at the LCBO.

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

Clear yellow, white lacing foam head. Strong hoppy aroma and strong bitter taste. Long aftertaste. Great beer. Do not quite understand about these 2 Stone breweries though. (Galveston 201605)

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Comes out of tap golden yellow with a nice creamy ivory head. Aroma is strongly hoppy and evergreen, like fresh-cut pine wood. Flavor is SERIOUSLY hoppy, like drinking a liquid pine tree, very evergreen but not too bitter, with fruity hints. Texture is fairly firm and fizzy, leaving a strong and lasting evergreen finish. A serious IPA for serious IPA fans!

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

Thanks to my neighbor for this - GREAT beer. This may be the best of the session IPAs. This was a light weight abv but a heavyweight of flavor. I loved it. Well done - as always.

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

Hazy yellow pour with a thin bubbly head and moderate lacing. Aroma of lemon and pine. Thin mouthfeel as expected. Flavour of pine, grapefruit and grassy with a touch of malt sweetness. After a hot and sweaty 12hr shift this was very refreshing but I still prefer Easy Jack.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Having recently reviewed my first "session" (relatively low alcohol) IPA, (Founder's All Day IPA) and having given in a mediocre review, I thought it was interesting to come across this new (?) Stone offering. This has a huge all-hop nose. Very perfumed, apricots (which I got from the Founder's as well) lots of pine and grapefruit. Malts totally missing from the nose but the hops nose lingers long. Pours a pale to medium yellow body with a white head with little lace and medium retention. (Also just like the Founder's). Mouth hints at medium but ends a bit light, carbonation well done. Lots of bitter in the flavor with no malt backbone. Grassy, herbal/medicinal and a deep hidden sour hinted at that I have having troubles placing. Maybe sour apple as well, or grapefruit rind. Key to this flavor, just like the Founders (also at ABV 4.5) is unbalanced. Man I wish somebody could make a well balanced hop-head IPA weighing in at 4.5 or less but apparently, absent a malt bill that makes itself known in the flavor profile, nobody has been able to do so. I am trying to find something that this type profile would pair with, any ideas out there? Ripe cheese?

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

I had avoided this one for awhile because, well session ipa's just really dosent sound right. I found a single so i tried it and.. Pours a perfectly clear light golden color with a one finger creamy white head. Big hops aroma with pineapple, honey, grapefruit, citrus peel, grass. Flavor is light malts stuck behind bright grassy hops with notes of citrus peel and pineapple throughout. Medium bitter. Light bodied with plenty of carbonation, finishing slightly dry. Probably the best of the session IPAs.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

A dull straw-yellow colored beer with a big sudsy textured white head rising above. There's decent hang time on the head. It settles into a thin ringlet. The nose is floral. The tasting more floral mixed with piney hops. A nice balance of fruit and malt sweetness. Light, crisp and refreshing.