Tonight's beer: Stone RuinTen
Lots of bitterness, mostly juicy citrus in the form of grapefruit and orange with distinct threads of pine, grass, musk, flowers. Some pale bread, touched by caramel, buried in the background, provides something less like balance and more like stark relief.
Thick and kinda syrupy, with lots of resinous stickiness. Decently carbonated. Drying toward the finish, but a bit too sticky to manage refreshing. Not a lot of alcohol presence, given the 10.8% ABV; just a little prickle on the back of the throat.
This is a good Double IPA, released into a craft beer universe teeming with good Double IPAs. Reasonably intense, but less complex than some; nicely balanced and integrated; plenty drinkable—maybe enough so to be a problem, given the alcohol content. I am ambivalent, at best, about Stone's beers, and this beer (though it's better than I was expecting) isn't doing anything to change that.
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| Stone RuinTen |
Lots of bitterness, mostly juicy citrus in the form of grapefruit and orange with distinct threads of pine, grass, musk, flowers. Some pale bread, touched by caramel, buried in the background, provides something less like balance and more like stark relief.
Thick and kinda syrupy, with lots of resinous stickiness. Decently carbonated. Drying toward the finish, but a bit too sticky to manage refreshing. Not a lot of alcohol presence, given the 10.8% ABV; just a little prickle on the back of the throat.
This is a good Double IPA, released into a craft beer universe teeming with good Double IPAs. Reasonably intense, but less complex than some; nicely balanced and integrated; plenty drinkable—maybe enough so to be a problem, given the alcohol content. I am ambivalent, at best, about Stone's beers, and this beer (though it's better than I was expecting) isn't doing anything to change that.
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