Beer Information
Brewery: Stone Brewing Company
Beer Name: Ruination
Beer Style: Double IPA
Abv.: 7.7%
Serving Glassware: Tulip, Pint
Serving Temp.: 50-55 deg. F.
Packaging: 22oz bottles, 6-pk 12oz bottles
Price: ~$7
Availability: Year-round
Overall Grade: C
Appearance: 3.5
Aroma: 4
Taste: 3.5
Mouthfeel: 3.5
Drinkability: 4
BeerAdvocate Avg.: A
Mike's Description
Appearance - Lighter golden color (almost yellow) with a whopping 2 inches of frothy white head. The harpoon ipa glass is completely clouded with lace. I am very surprised at how light and clean this beer looks for a double IPA.
Aroma - A lot of citrusy and floral notes here. Not as in-your-face in terms of hops as most DIPAs. Some fruit presence such as orange and grapefruit.
Taste - The taste is pretty much the aroma for this beer except for a slightly more dominant grapefruit facet. Very well-balanced (in relation to hops and malts) for a DIPA, which isn't necessarily what one hopes for when tasting a DIPA.
Mouthfeel - Some lingering hops, as expected, in the aftertaste of this very light-bodied beer.
Overall - Overall I was kind of disappointed by this beer (as you probably guessed from my scores above). It is a very good beer, but it has everything that anyone could want in an IPA, not a DIPA. It is nearly perfect in terms of all the characteristics of a single IPA (it tastes just like Ballast Point's Sculpin IPA to me) and if it were, I would probably give it a perfect score. The bottle says "IPA" and the alcohol percentage as well as everything else about this beer screams IPA, but I'll trust BeerAdvocate's classification as a DIPA and rate it as such. When I purchase a DIPA, I want to be blown away by the hops.
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