Stone Old Guardian - Extra Hoppy
Stone Old Guardian - Extra Hoppy
Rated 3.300 by BeerPalsBrewed by Stone Brewing Company
Escondido, CA, United States
Style: American Barleywine
11% Alcohol by Volume
80 International Bittering Units
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Barley wines are traditionally hefty brews, but ours is downright excessive. The huge maltiness of this beer is only tamed by an equally prodigious addition of hops, creating a rich, slightly sweet, caramel-hued ale infused with assertive bitterness and bright hop notes, all culminating in a pleasing dryness. While it will evolve into an even more glorious brew with age, this beer's delicious onslaught of flavors will seriously challenge your ability to wait any longer to drink it.
ID: 59466 Last updated 2 weeks ago Added to database 9 years agoKey Stats
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Statistics
| Overall Rank | 10769 |
| Overall Percentile | 80.6 |
| Style Rank | 223 of 547 |
| Style Percentile | 59.2 |
| Lowest Score | 3.7 |
| Highest Score | 3.8 |
| Average Score | 3.750 |
| Weighted Score | 3.300 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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2 Member Reviews
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7
Rated April 2015. 22oz bomber pours with a crystal clear ruby red amber body that supports an off white head of foam. The aroma offers up sticky malt sweetened floral and pine hops as well as some booze mixed with earthy hops and some caramel malts. The taste begins with smooth and slick malts and then it gets into bold floral and pine hoppiness. There’s a pleasing blend of malts, flavor hops and resiny hoppy bitterness that heightens the experience. To midway the resiny pine hops are joined by some booziness and then another hit of malts. This is almost bruisingly bitter but with plenty of body, malts and booze to have some senses of balance.
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Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7
22 oz bottle. Pours hazy copper orange with a big creamy off white head that retains well and laces the glass.
The aroma is surprisingly subdued - sweet caramel malts, some fruit and some ashy metallic hops and medicinal alcohol.
The flavor is sweet caramel malts, fruit and piney resiny hops with a bit of hot alcohol. The mouthfeel is medium bodied - slightly light and watery.
Overall, nice balance of sweet caramel malt and hops. It's a bit hot and a bit thin.
