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Stone Spotlight Series: Drew & Steve’s Imperial Mutt Brown Ale

Stone Spotlight Series: Drew & Steve’s Imperial Mutt Brown Ale

Rated 3.380 by BeerPals

Brewed by Stone Brewing Company

Escondido, CA, United States

Style:  Strong Ale

9% Alcohol by Volume

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Stone Brewing Supervisor Drew Neldon and Brewer Steve Via joined forces to develop the award-winning beer. When brainstorming recipe ideas, Neldon wanted to brew an altbier, while Via was interested in exploring brown ales. (Before crafting this beer, Via felt he’d never had a brown ale that synced with his palate.) Rather than focus on a single beer category, the duo decided to combine the best qualities of both styles by using four different malts to make a unique mongrel, hence the name: Imperial Mutt Brown Ale. “With such talented and inventive brewers on our team, each installment of the Stone Spotlight Series has had very stiff competition,” explains Stone Brewmaster Mitch Steele. “During the judging session earlier this year, we were most impressed by the English notes coming from Drew and Steve’s beer. After brewing their recipe on our 120-barrel systems, the character of the English ale yeast really shines, along with the interesting blend of malts used.” The beer’s grain bill is made up of Victory, chocolate wheat, Vienna and Honey malts. Fruity and bread-like aromatics are joined by subtle coffee notes. Mild roast and coffee traits carry over to the flavor, followed by hints of toffee and molasses. Magnum and East Kent Golding hops offer a restrained, balancing bitterness to a strong malt backbone. When all these qualities combine, the result is a full-bodied, malt-driven beer that’s smooth and easy to drink. Stone Spotlight: Imperial Mutt Brown Ale is ready to be enjoyed fresh or may be aged for months or several years at proper cellaring conditions (55°F or lower). Although Drew and Steve’s Imperial Mutt Brown Ale will be available in limited quantities, fans can look forward to a new winning beer every year from the Stone Spotlight Series that showcases Team Stone’s brewing talent.

ID: 63912 Last updated 2 weeks ago Added to database 8 years ago

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Overall Rank6201
Overall Percentile88.8
Style Rank206 of 810
Style Percentile74.6
Lowest Score3.7
Highest Score4.2
Average Score3.950
Weighted Score3.380
Standard Deviation0.000

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  • IBREW2OR3 1243 reviews
    rated 3.7 6 months ago

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

    Rated June 2015. 22oz bomber pours up with a deep amber brown body that supports a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up light nuttiness, black licorice and then an earthy note that has a sliver of chocolate wrapped around it. The taste is nutty, some spiciness that contains some black licorice, roasted malts, biscuit malts, a dash of molasses drizzled cinnamon graham cracker, a thin sweet prune to raisin sensation and then some sweetened roasted maltiness. There’s a lot that seems to be going on here and for Imperial at 9% the ABV is pretty well hidden in there somewhere. As it warms it seems to pick up a light earthy smokiness as well. This comes across a bit too black licorice like spiciness for my tastes but that’s starting to split hairs. The more I drink the more I like it.

  • CYBERCAT 13017 reviews
    rated 4.2 8 years ago

    Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

    Pours opaque chocolate brown with a thick, frothy, light tan head. Aroma has promising toasted malt, caramel, clove, and subtle cinnamon and semi-sweet chocolate notes. Bold flavor floods the tongue with toasty malt, woody hop, clove, earthy and toffee tones plus hints of chocolate and charcoal. Mouthfeel presents fairly firm body and good fizz. Barkin’ good!

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