Enjoy By IPA - Stone Brewing Co.

tectactoe

Michigan

4.48/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Gift from Johnny Ramirez. Enjoy by 12.21.12 - the "end of the year" version... Sweet! Pours a golden amber color with excellent clarity and a small white head. Decent lacing - something I've now always come to expect from Stone brews. Heavy pineapple on the nose, grapefruits, tangerines, slight lemon zest; floral hops, perfume fragrance, wet grass. Very nice - it has a "juicy" smell, the smell you'd expect from biting into a fruit. If that fruit was loaded with hop oil.

Taste is, of course, hoppy; slightly peppery, a little leafy, ashy, kind of dry. Heavy dose of malt and yeast; biscuity with some warming alcohol spice on the roof of the mouth and the back of the tongue. Over the course of the sip, the hop profile grows and expands, it starts taking on a very dank, resinous, and musty flavor and aroma. Interesting and very complex. Weedy overall, with some onion notes in the back that are kind of strange, but not necessarily off-putting, just a little strange. The malt sweetens things up a bit, and the yeast helps out too - bread, crackers on the end of the sip. As mentioned, the flavor follows right along with biting into a tropical fruit soaked in hop oil. Aftertaste is a bitter and spicy hop flavor. Thick body, sticky, wet, medium carbonation.

It's rare that I'm disappointed by Stone beers, and this one is no exception. Excellent IPA with a very complex profile - very tasty all around. In my opinion, probably the best Stone IPA I've tried (didn't have Ruination 10th, but oh well). Too bad this one doesn't come to Michigan, because I'd always try to find the latest release.

Serving type: bottle

12-10-2012 01:20:18 | More by tectactoe

beernads

Florida

3.75/5  rDev -15.2%

05-18-2013 06:37:52 | More by beernads

Emkehr

Connecticut

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%

05-18-2013 04:17:16 | More by Emkehr

Netdogca

Illinois

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%

05-18-2013 03:17:16 | More by Netdogca

mikeyv35

New York

4.38/5  rDev -0.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Date: 05/17/2013
Type: 22oz. Bottle
Vintage: Bottled on 04/12/2013 & best by 05/17/2013
Glass: Half Acre Tulip

Ironically, I was getting ready to watch the Penguin game #2 against the Senators and was shopping for a good beer to drink at a store in Brooklyn and stumbled across this bottle. Now, I am watching the best team in hockey from my hometown and drinking best by 05/17/13 on 05/17/13. Life does not get much better than this!

Poured a golden in color w/ a big 2 finger white head that left sticky lacing on the glass. The aroma was of a massive amount of grapefruit, citrus, pine, and earthiness. The taste was big grapefruit up front, leading into medium amounts of resinous bitterness, finishing w/ vanilla mixed w/ an herbal quality.Medium bodied and somewhat dry. This, like most DIPAs was pretty drinkable.

Overall, a great DIPA from Stone! It was nice to see Stone's concern on freshness and innovation despite how large this brewery has become. This one just has a slight vanilla note on the end and the fact that it needs to finish drier that prevents it from being all-world. In the end, a well made DIPA that did not have many holes, but Stone should thank the Pittsburgh Penguins for filling the rest by winning 4-2.

Go Pens! Stanley Cup number 4 is around the corner.

Serving type: bottle

05-18-2013 03:15:42 | More by mikeyv35

JonRogers

Massachusetts

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%

05-18-2013 03:10:39 | More by JonRogers

mkirkland80

Virginia

4.75/5  rDev +7.5%

05-18-2013 02:29:21 | More by mkirkland80

timoteo833

New York

4.5/5  rDev +1.8%

05-18-2013 01:56:16 | More by timoteo833

alexsergio

New York

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%

05-18-2013 01:49:04 | More by alexsergio

abeerdude

California

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%

05-17-2013 22:07:52 | More by abeerdude

GaryMarkle84

Virginia

4.75/5  rDev +7.5%

05-17-2013 21:43:59 | More by GaryMarkle84

pixieskid

France

3.75/5  rDev -15.2%

05-17-2013 20:26:48 | More by pixieskid

bonbini26

New Jersey

4.5/5  rDev +1.8%

05-17-2013 19:15:14 | More by bonbini26

hsaye

North Carolina

4.5/5  rDev +1.8%

05-17-2013 18:44:46 | More by hsaye

twenty5

Pennsylvania

4.5/5  rDev +1.8%

05-17-2013 15:01:22 | More by twenty5

eliz108

Wisconsin

4.75/5  rDev +7.5%

05-17-2013 14:38:52 | More by eliz108

jklecko2

Missouri

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%

05-17-2013 14:15:21 | More by jklecko2

lndsy

Texas

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%

05-17-2013 13:02:20 | More by lndsy

chossboss

Oregon

5/5  rDev +13.1%

05-17-2013 04:33:17 | More by chossboss

myersk27

Indiana

4/5  rDev -9.5%

05-17-2013 03:52:18 | More by myersk27

CharlatanSin

Connecticut

4.45/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Enjoy by 5/17/13, enjoyed on 5/16/13, just under the wire.

A: Absolutely gorgeous. A clear golden amber with a big, rocky white head that lingers and laces. This is the platonic pale ale, appearance-wise.

S: Even with one day to go, it smells like brewday. Citrusy and resinous. Floral, a little early.

T/M: A total hop showcase, unsurprisingly. Grapefruit and other citrus. Nicely bitter, persistent but not overwhelming. A tiny bit of alcohol. Not much malt flavor to speak of. Mouthfeel's on the thick side for the style, very low carbonation.

O: I think Enjoy By is one of the better innovations in craft beer recently. Putting a hard deadline on an IPA is brilliant.

Serving type: bottle

05-17-2013 00:24:12 | More by CharlatanSin

Fcolle2

Illinois

4/5  rDev -9.5%

05-17-2013 00:22:56 | More by Fcolle2

PhillyStyle

Georgia

4.43/5  rDev +0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Enjoy by 05.17.13 On-tap at the Cask Republic, New Haven, CT:

Served in a tulip glass and enjoyed on 5/15/13. The appeared a nice deep amber color with a thick, rocky white head that was really well retained. The beer gave off an intense pine hop aroma with maybe a slight hint of citrus. The taste was very good...the hops, while very very upfront were not so overpowering that I was turned off by them, as happens occasionally with some DIPAs. This might be one of the best DIPAs that I have enjoyed. The beer felt good and the beer was smooth, but drinkability does suffer given the ABV. Overall, an excellent brew.

Serving type: on-tap

05-16-2013 20:55:32 | More by PhillyStyle

iHeartMNBeer

Minnesota

4/5  rDev -9.5%

05-16-2013 20:48:06 | More by iHeartMNBeer

carlosega

Ohio

4/5  rDev -9.5%

05-16-2013 20:13:07 | More by carlosega