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San Diego County Session Ale
Stone Brewing
- From:
- Stone Brewing
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 12.28%
- Reviews:
- 270
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 06, 2016
- Added:
- Aug 07, 2010
- Wants:
- 15
- Gots:
- 20
Collaboration with Ballast Point Brewing and Kelsey McNair
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Ratings by WVbeergeek:
Reviewed by WVbeergeek from West Virginia
3.55/5 rDev -11%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.55/5 rDev -11%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Appears a pale golden orange copper hue with a bright white head, fine speckled lacing from the head forms tight. Aroma has quite a bit of garlic/onion spiciness amongst the grapefruit rind citrus peels. Mild pale biscuit malts in the background. Flavor makes you pucker up a bit with rough raw bitterness citrus peel/grapefruit rind/onion this has to have loads of summit to be giving me that onion tone. Drinks with a thinner body than the average hoppy as hell west coast ale, but this is designed to give in a bit in the malts to keep the alcohol in check. This is a bit like comparing Michelob Ultra to a standard Mich if you're talking to a beer lay person, but way more flavor with way less calories. Carbonation is moderate steady no complaints. A bit thin compared to some of the hoppy ales out there. Drinkability is solid a bit abrasive with the onion I guess it just depends how sensitive that is.
Oct 09, 2010More User Ratings:
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
4.06/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Old review from notes.
Yellow beer with lots of clarity. Nice white 1/2" head. Aroma seemed like a great mix of newer style ipa hops. Amarillo seemed to jump. Plenty of citrus and pine. One of the first session ipas I've come across. The price at $3/12oz was a little heavy, but if they could drop it to $2 a bottle, I think it could work.
This beer stays very light on its feet while packing plenty of flavor. There's been better ones going on lately.
May 02, 2016Yellow beer with lots of clarity. Nice white 1/2" head. Aroma seemed like a great mix of newer style ipa hops. Amarillo seemed to jump. Plenty of citrus and pine. One of the first session ipas I've come across. The price at $3/12oz was a little heavy, but if they could drop it to $2 a bottle, I think it could work.
This beer stays very light on its feet while packing plenty of flavor. There's been better ones going on lately.
San Diego County Session Ale from Stone Brewing
Beer rating:
89 out of
100 with
376 ratings
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