Stone Punishment
Stone Punishment
Rated 3.350 by BeerPals
Brewed by Stone Brewing Company
Escondido, CA, United States
Style: Strong Ale
12% Alcohol by Volume
82 International Bittering Units
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Punishment was born as Double Bastard Ale - a heavy, bitter, beast of a beer. It was already not for the timid, but with the addition of jaw-dropping quantities of freshly harvested local peppers including mid-level-heat red and green jalapenos and ultra-hot black nagas, Caribbean red hots, Moruga scorpions and fatalis, it morphed into a truly punishing brew. Aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels.
ID: 55254 Last updated 2 weeks ago Added to database 10 years agoKey Stats
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| Overall Rank | 7798 |
| Overall Percentile | 86 |
| Style Rank | 251 of 811 |
| Style Percentile | 69.1 |
| Lowest Score | 3.5 |
| Highest Score | 3.8 |
| Average Score | 3.700 |
| Weighted Score | 3.350 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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3 Member Reviews
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8
Rated 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. Tried this directly after finishing the Crime with my brother-in-law. The aroma offers up chili meat notes, a big shot of heat to the snoot and then faint oak and bourbon sort of notes off in the background. Deep into the pull I get pine, boozy bourbon and vanilla mixing together beneath the chili pepper notes. The taste starts great with sweet smooth malts, a bit of caramel sweetness and a bourbon barrel ringed with vanilla. OK, this Punishment for doing Crime first isn’t all that bad. Next it gets into chili pepper meat with various chili pepper flavor nuances. A moment later this thing lowers the boom on you with a growing onslaught of chili pepper burn and then it burns and burns and burns. If I wait for the burn to go away after each sip it seems to take about 5 minutes. After several ounces are consumed I start to notice my lips are burning too. Wow, this is straight up nuts. As the burn progresses to the lips I notice my palate adjust some and it takes on a faint smoothness where I can pick up the occasional note of vanilla and sweet candy like bourbon booziness. This is some punishment. A sample of Punishment without doing the Crime first is even bigger pains and hurts and burning. Wow! Another interesting experience. If I were to get more I would opt for Crime and not do the painful Punishment. Well done Stone.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
Definitely disappointed in the 2nd bottle release of these. While the first scotch barreled batches were far and away the best pepper beers ever, this beer is so hot and pepper dominated that the bourbon barreling is completely covered up. I dig the peppers, but his is hard to kill. BB double bastard or the base DB are preferred. Subtlety could have gone a long way here. Scotch Punishment was an all timer to compare (4.6).
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
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I could essentially copy my review of Crime and it would fit here perfectly as well. Lots of heat and lots of sweetness all the way around. The base beer gets obliterated from the addition of the chili peppers. But I liked it.
