Imperial Star Fawker
Stone Brewing

Rated 2-1-2025 This beer pours a slight hazy golden color with a decent head that stays for a while. The aroma is citrus & tropical fruit, with some good malt sweetness. Taste is similar to aroma with a touch of bitterness and alcohol. Have had in fridge way too long, but still good. BOD 6-17-2021

Type: 12-oz. can
Reviewed as: New England Double / Imperial IPA
Glass: Pure Project 14-oz. Teku glass
Price: $2.50
From: Trader Joe’s in La Mesa, Calif.
Purchased: July 11, 2021
Consumed: July 16, 2021
Misc.: Canned on June 17, 2021; Enjoy by Oct. 15, 2021

Grabbed a can of this and a few others on a recent trip to Trader Joe’s. Not sure I’d see many Stone hazy beers but decided to pick this one up, the first Stone beer I’d purchased all of 2021 (wow). Their website called it “Stone Imperial Star Fawker Hazy IPA is loaded with Rakau & Citra hops for an intense blast of stonefruit and citrus flavors. And the aroma on this one is massive. As in, you-can-smell-the-hops-from-space massive. This hazy double IPA is a follow up mission to Stone Viking Space Probe Hazy Double IPA, which also originally launched from Stone Brewing - Napa.” Still new to Rakau, but it described it as apricot, plum, mango, pear, and other stone fruits.

Poured a light amber semi-hazy color with four fingers of rocky white head. Lots of bubble streams coming up along the sides of the glass. Almost perfect spiderweb foamy lacing. Almost perfect foamy retention. (Sight - 4.75)

Smelled Rakau, stone fruit, mango, plum, nectarine, berry, red grapefruit, plum, purple grape, herbal and menthol. Not as good out of the can. (Smell - 3.75)

Tasted about as good as the nose. Got Rakau, stone fruit, mango, nectarine, berry, Citra, red grapefruit, plum, purple grape, herbal, menthol and lingering spice. (Taste - 3.75)

Medium body. Oily-to-creamy texture. Lively-to-average carbonation. Abrupt bitter finish. (Feel - 4.00)

A pretty good hazy IPA. I’d probably have this again. (Overall - 3.75)

3.84 | 86 | B+

 

 

 

Look: It pours hazy orange yellow with an off white head.

Smell: It has some tropical notes of melon and a low amount of coconut. There are supporting background notes of pineapple and cherry.

Taste: It has strong tropical favors with pineapple, melon, and cherry. There are low levels of coconut and orange.

Feel: It has a medium body with a sweet finish that is cough drop medicinal like.

Overall, it has strong tropical flavors but the finish is a bit medicinal for me.

 

 

Canned in June ....something (Can't read it . ;) ) Best by 10/16/44 . (That's a joke, right? Right? :P )

Hazy orangey-gold, with one finger of off-white head, that leaves some spotty lacing.

Smell is crackery malt, while the head is intact, followed by a vague mix of peach and citrus, plus a little caramel and pine.

Taste is orange marmalade, slight caramel, and bitter pine.

Feel is medium and juicy, with moderate carbonation bite.

Overall , pretty good. Seems a hybrid of juicy + old-school IPA. Juicy + pine/citrus rind/ bitter. If you blended Sloop Juice Bomb with Bell's Two-Hearted, you'd likely get something very close to this. Guessing that it would be even better fresher, but still good with some age on it.

 

12oz can poured into a tulip

A- pours a murky orange color with a one-finger foamy white head that reduces to a film on top

S- citrus-forward nose with notes of orange juice and grapefruit zest, followed by mango and peach. Undertones of pine and bready malt

S- tropical hops up front with notes of mango and green melon, quickly followed by a sharp zesty citrus note of grapefruit. Undertones of lemon and pine, with more grapefruit zest on the linger

M- medium body with moderate carbonation leads to a foamy mouthfeel that turns into a creamy finish

Yellow gold in color with a hazy complexion. There’s a fingernail of creamy off white on top. The aroma is of citrus, lemon, and lime. I’m tasting lime, lemon, and overripe pineapple. The mouth is resinous and dry.

The pour is golden yellow. The taste is papaya, mango, & grapefruit. It's a bitter hazy IPA but coming from Stone that should be expected, very good hazy. Cheers!

 

Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a 12 fl oz can on July 25, 2021.

Taste explosion

 

 

I got a can of this beer off the single shelf from a beer store in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. It poured a hazy orangish with thin white head that is leaving a spotty lace. The scent had dank stone and apricot notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with dank stone fruit start that turned fruit peel bitter with heavy booze. The mouthfeel was fuller in body and had good carbonation. Overall it is a good beer.