Stone Brewing Beats The Heat With Refreshingly Hoppy Summer Seasonals
The good folks at Stone Brewing will help you through the hot muggy days of summer with a trio of beers including the highly anticipated return of Stone Mocha IPA and Stone RuinTen Triple IPA w/ Orange Peel & Vanilla Bean, along with the debut of Stone Ghost Hammer IPA.
All 3 of Stone’s summer seasonal beers should be available here in Puerto Rico 🙂
Stone Mocha IPA
A fan favorite returns and this double IPA Imperial Seasonal combines the uniquely refreshing characteristics of a bright, fruity IPA with satisfying mocha overtones. This revolutionary IPA blurs the lines between an IPA and a stout.
Technically it is an all-out double IPA, this decadent creation is brewed with the combination of golden-roasted coffee, pure dark chocolate and citrusy hops. The resulting love child is characterized by a beautiful meld of imperial IPA and mocha indulgence, brewed with actual cacao, milk sugar and coffee.
A vivid burst of fresh, golden-roasted coffee, pure dark chocolate and a barrage of citrusy hops, creates this unconventional and hedonistic delight.
Appearance: Deep copper with a tan head of foam.
Aroma: Coffee, cocoa and citrusy hops, in that order!
Taste: Cocoa hits first, then coffee. The beer finishes with a nice citrus zing from the Citra and Amarillo hops, where all the flavors play perfectly together.
Palate: Full bodied, smooth, with a bitter finish.
ABV: 9%
Stone RuinTen Triple IPA w/ Orange Peel & Vanilla Bean
Loud, aggressive, and quite eccentric, this mega-hopped success is not one to hold back. Stone RuinTen Triple IPA earned a rabid following of hopheads clamoring for its return each year. With an avant-garde amplification to the classic Stone Ruination IPA, this triple IPA includes two new ingredients of Orange Peel and Vanilla Bean and to achieve its sweet jam session of flavor. With hops in overdrive, not just in the boil, the result is pure magic.
Appearance: Deep gold with an off-white, fluffy head.
Aroma: Orange and vanilla throughout, with a nice dankness underneath and hop aromas of lemon, nectarine, pineapple, and tropical fruit.
Taste: Orange and vanilla melds into an abundance of tropical hop flavors. There is a balance of pleasant maltiness and hops with a long, lingering finish.
Palate: A very big beer, rounded out with bitterness on the finish, and a nice warming from the high ABV.
ABV: 10.8 %
Stone Ghost Hammer IPA
From the dark recessses of the brewery, emerges a new, unfiltered IPA brewed with Loral hops. In tribute to the overnight Stone Brew Crew, this canned specialty seasonal makes an ethereal appearance, with a floral, lemony and tropical explosion. The name Stone Ghost Hammer IPA refers to the occasional creaking of the knocking pipes in the brewery, which are especially noticeable during the quieter overnight brewing shifts.
“Our quest for using new and different hops never ends,” says Jeremy Moynier, Senior Innovation Brewing Manager. “Stone Ghost Hammer IPA is our latest beer to highlight innovation in the hop world with a newer hop called Loral, which is named by combining the words ‘lemon’ and ‘floral’ as a nod to the strong lemony notes and its intense floral aroma. Additionally, Loral has some classic European noble hop qualities, making it overall a very unique and exciting hop.”
Appearance: Pours golden with some haze and a white head.
Aroma: An intense floral nose with candy, mango, lemon and pine.
Taste: Lemon sorbet, hard candy, spice, with herbal and noble-hop undertones.
Palate: Crisp and clean. Very balanced with subtle bitterness.
ABV: 6.7%
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