Stone 10th Anniversary IPA

Stone - 10th Anniversary IPA: We received our first allotment today, with several more cases to follow in a couple weeks. The 3Ltr bottles will be arriving on the second load. Please call if you'd like us to hold anything for you.

Here's the "official description" from Greg Koch, CEO of Stone:
"Stone 10th Anniversary IPA harkens back to our earlier Anniversary Ales, with abundant hopping at many stages of the brewing process. Appropriately, the aroma is over-the-top, with pronounced piney and resiny hop flavors combined with tropical fruit esters and more subtle notes of toasted malts and alcohol. Our Stone 10th Anniversary Ale weighs in at 10% alcohol by volume (perfect for a 10th anniversary beer), and has a little more color and malt character than our other IPAs. In addition to using the new Summit hop variety in the brewhouse to provide the powerful bitterness, we went back through our records and found some of our favorite hops over the years, and used them to flavor this brew, including Chinook, Crystal, and large doses of Simcoe in the dry-hop to provide a huge, complex, piney, fruity and floral hop character. This is a colossal beer, big in every sense: hoppy, malty, rich, and strong! Right up our alley."

I tried a sample of the Stone 10th on Tuesday (Thanks, John!), and all the hopheads are going to go nuts for this one. The 10% abv is beautifully masked underneath layers and layers of delicious hoppy flavors. The smooth,creamy mouthfeel and soft carbonation accentuate the grapefruity hop presence and almost forces you to roll the beer around in your mouth to expose as many tastebuds as possible to the glory of the hop. Mmmmm......hops.

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