Stone RuinTen Triple IPA

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 10

On tap at Pizza Port Carlsbad for $5 per half pint (kind of pricy . . . and I got two). It pours up clear deep gold with thin copper hues here and there and supporting up an off white head. The aroma, out of this little half pint tumbler, offers up some grapefruit, mango and fairly sharp resiny hop notes riding on the top of some booziness. The taste is similar as this is right to style with its bold to brash hops and booze. It seems like what I remember the Stone 10th Anniversary to be like while fresh except this beer isn’t as chewy and isn’t as insanely rich as that beer was. I get a pleasing load of grapefruit and tangelo hop flavor as well as a little mango that rolls quickly into bitter resiny hop goodness that only gives ground to a mild booziness. It ends with a very pleasing citrus hoppy goodness in my mouth demanding me to take another swig or go get that tiny expensive little tumbler re-filled. Since the body isn’t super chewy and super rich and along with the fresh hoppy goodness to me this seem dangerously sessionable, but that’s just me. I hope we get some here in AZ.

The more I drink this the more I love it. I’m starting to think what more could you want in a IIPA? This hits on all cylinders as it’s rich, it’s bitter with rich hoppiness, full force hop flavor and it lets you know it has a sizable ABV. Great to style IIPA. This moves up a few more points for me. Damn!