Stainless Forest
Burlington Beer Co.
- From:
- Burlington Beer Co.
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
Ranked #1,360 - ABV:
- 8.2%
- Score:
- 93
Ranked #4,247 - Avg:
- 4.19 | pDev: 6.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 41
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 02, 2025
- Added:
- Sep 07, 2016
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 21
SCORE
93
Outstanding
93
Outstanding
Stainless Forest is a new Double IPA hopped with Amarillo and Simcoe. Enormous hop flavors and aromas of tangerine, dank weed, and tropical juice.
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Reviewed by woodchipper from Connecticut
3.56/5 rDev -15%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.56/5 rDev -15%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Purchased cold yesterday from a cooler in a small liquor store and kept cold until severed. Poured to a Nonic from the 16oz undated can.
The body pours out a hazy apricot color. It is quite opaque but you can brighten it holding the glass to a light. The white head begins with medium bubbles, but fades to a topographical micro-foam, hilly head before settling to a thin covering with a thick ring over minutes. After fading, lacing is very good. Lacing is aggressive.
The aroma is rather mild with maybe hints of melon and some dankness.
The taste is more powerful with berries, melon and a considerable hop-bite finish.
The mouthfeel is slightly creamy. Carbonation is just a little more aggressive than it should be.
Overall, nice mouthfeel, good berry flavor but the finish is harsher than I wanted it to be. Reminder-there is no way for me to tell the age or cold-chain adherence on this can. The brewery’s website says that it is available all year round, but it does not appear on the “Current Lineup” page as I drink this.
Nov 02, 2025The body pours out a hazy apricot color. It is quite opaque but you can brighten it holding the glass to a light. The white head begins with medium bubbles, but fades to a topographical micro-foam, hilly head before settling to a thin covering with a thick ring over minutes. After fading, lacing is very good. Lacing is aggressive.
The aroma is rather mild with maybe hints of melon and some dankness.
The taste is more powerful with berries, melon and a considerable hop-bite finish.
The mouthfeel is slightly creamy. Carbonation is just a little more aggressive than it should be.
Overall, nice mouthfeel, good berry flavor but the finish is harsher than I wanted it to be. Reminder-there is no way for me to tell the age or cold-chain adherence on this can. The brewery’s website says that it is available all year round, but it does not appear on the “Current Lineup” page as I drink this.
Rated by ttoadee from Texas
3.93/5 rDev -6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev -6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
RB transfer
Sep 20, 2025
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
2.17/5 rDev -48.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 1 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 1
2.17/5 rDev -48.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 1 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 1
Hazy light orange with an unevenly fuzzy white head.
A nose of kiwi cologne and vanilla whip on biscuit abruptly transitions to an offensively catty, musty palate of old rug and graham.
If it tasted like it smelled it'd be pretty great. Perhaps the can had some kinks, but this beer was pretty trash.
Aug 24, 2023A nose of kiwi cologne and vanilla whip on biscuit abruptly transitions to an offensively catty, musty palate of old rug and graham.
If it tasted like it smelled it'd be pretty great. Perhaps the can had some kinks, but this beer was pretty trash.
Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas
4.15/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a very hazy orange-yellow color with a small head of yellow tinted foam. The head has a decent level of retention, fading over time and leaving a moderate amount of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is heaviest of a tropical fruit aroma of mango, pineapple and tangerine. Complimenting these rather well are hop smells of a dank nature with some herbal and pine hop aromas. Other hop smells of grapefruit are there as well, mixing with some other citrus aromas of a light lemon. With a bit of melon and peach in there as well, an inviting and moderately hoppy and fruit heavy aroma is produced overall.
Taste – The taste begins strongest of a Slightly bready malt flavor mixed with some of the tropical fruit that was in the nose. Right from the start there is a good presence of hoppiness, with it starting out strongest in an earthy and grapefruit nature. As the taste advances forward the maltiness increases in intensity all while so does the hop, with more earth being joined by some pine and herbal hop flavors. Toward the end, the comes a touch of lemon-lime and a hint of alcohol, leaving one with a decently dank and more malty and tropically taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the thicker side for an 8.2 % abv brew with a carbonation level that is high. The high carbonation is great for the fruit flavors, while the thick body well suited for the dank hop tastes, overall producing a rather well done mouthfeel.
Overall – Amore malty but rather tasty double. I would certainly go back to this one again.
Apr 12, 2023Appearance – The beer pours a very hazy orange-yellow color with a small head of yellow tinted foam. The head has a decent level of retention, fading over time and leaving a moderate amount of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is heaviest of a tropical fruit aroma of mango, pineapple and tangerine. Complimenting these rather well are hop smells of a dank nature with some herbal and pine hop aromas. Other hop smells of grapefruit are there as well, mixing with some other citrus aromas of a light lemon. With a bit of melon and peach in there as well, an inviting and moderately hoppy and fruit heavy aroma is produced overall.
Taste – The taste begins strongest of a Slightly bready malt flavor mixed with some of the tropical fruit that was in the nose. Right from the start there is a good presence of hoppiness, with it starting out strongest in an earthy and grapefruit nature. As the taste advances forward the maltiness increases in intensity all while so does the hop, with more earth being joined by some pine and herbal hop flavors. Toward the end, the comes a touch of lemon-lime and a hint of alcohol, leaving one with a decently dank and more malty and tropically taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the thicker side for an 8.2 % abv brew with a carbonation level that is high. The high carbonation is great for the fruit flavors, while the thick body well suited for the dank hop tastes, overall producing a rather well done mouthfeel.
Overall – Amore malty but rather tasty double. I would certainly go back to this one again.
Reviewed by whitro17 from Florida
4.5/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
16 oz. can - $15 a 4 pack picked up at the brewery - canned on 11/22/2022
Look - deep amber, hazy, soapy white head, good lacing left behind
Smell - ripe citrus, cantaloupe, dank, floral, woody aromatic
Taste - juicy, ripe cantaloupe, dank hops, sweet fruit, grassy, spicy bitterness
Feel - medium body, medium carbonation, dank hoppy finish, spice
Overall - This is one juicy mutha that delivers on the tropical juice flavors. First had this about a year ago and
thought it was a bit better than It's Complicated Being A Wizard. I love both but am giving Stainless Forest the edge. The hoppy dank fruit and spicy bitter finish bring this up a notch for me. I suggest you pair this beauty with All Right Now by Free for ultimate drinking and listening pleasure. Enjoy!
Mar 23, 2023Look - deep amber, hazy, soapy white head, good lacing left behind
Smell - ripe citrus, cantaloupe, dank, floral, woody aromatic
Taste - juicy, ripe cantaloupe, dank hops, sweet fruit, grassy, spicy bitterness
Feel - medium body, medium carbonation, dank hoppy finish, spice
Overall - This is one juicy mutha that delivers on the tropical juice flavors. First had this about a year ago and
thought it was a bit better than It's Complicated Being A Wizard. I love both but am giving Stainless Forest the edge. The hoppy dank fruit and spicy bitter finish bring this up a notch for me. I suggest you pair this beauty with All Right Now by Free for ultimate drinking and listening pleasure. Enjoy!
Reviewed by Cole7
4.19/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.19/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Medium feel while drinking
Juicy
Citrus up front but it doesn't overpower the hops
Somewhat earthy toward the end
Hoppy aftertaste that lingers but is enjoyable
Overall I really enjoyed this beer. Super easy to drink and can't wait to try more from Burlington Beer Co.
Dec 29, 2022Juicy
Citrus up front but it doesn't overpower the hops
Somewhat earthy toward the end
Hoppy aftertaste that lingers but is enjoyable
Overall I really enjoyed this beer. Super easy to drink and can't wait to try more from Burlington Beer Co.
Reviewed by Shiredave from New York
3.9/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This was better after it warmed a bit allowing the malt and hops to blend in a harmonious way, rich, malt flavors of red berries and caramelized grain came forward while the aroma was weak for me..
Lingering hop bite was however quite satisfying on the finish.
Not a great hazy pale ale but a little more interesting than many and very drinkable.
Nov 23, 2022Lingering hop bite was however quite satisfying on the finish.
Not a great hazy pale ale but a little more interesting than many and very drinkable.
Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania
4.02/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap.
A - Opaque golden tan color with very dense white lacing.
S - Tropical fruit aroma, juicy sweet red grapefruit, tangerine, nectarine, and guava.
T - Peppery spicy tropical fruit rind, tangerine, spicy red grapefruit, and finishes initially on the sweeter side but morphs into moderate bitterness at the end.
M - Big medium, chewy, pillowy soft body with dryness on the back of the tongue.
O - Solid middle of the road D-IPA.
Oct 14, 2022A - Opaque golden tan color with very dense white lacing.
S - Tropical fruit aroma, juicy sweet red grapefruit, tangerine, nectarine, and guava.
T - Peppery spicy tropical fruit rind, tangerine, spicy red grapefruit, and finishes initially on the sweeter side but morphs into moderate bitterness at the end.
M - Big medium, chewy, pillowy soft body with dryness on the back of the tongue.
O - Solid middle of the road D-IPA.
Reviewed by DavetotheB from Pennsylvania
4.25/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
From an undated 16oz can into a pint glass.
Pours a very hazy opaque light brownish yellow with one finger off-white head. Ok retention, great lacing.
Pleasant aromas of pineapple, citrus and herbs.
Juicy grassy taste. Pineapple and citrus rind. Nice amount of piney bitterness. Well-balanced flavors.
Sticky soft mouthfeel. Bitter aftertaste. Full bodied. Low carbonation.
Nice beer. Fun to drink. Bonus points for cool can art.
May 30, 2022Pours a very hazy opaque light brownish yellow with one finger off-white head. Ok retention, great lacing.
Pleasant aromas of pineapple, citrus and herbs.
Juicy grassy taste. Pineapple and citrus rind. Nice amount of piney bitterness. Well-balanced flavors.
Sticky soft mouthfeel. Bitter aftertaste. Full bodied. Low carbonation.
Nice beer. Fun to drink. Bonus points for cool can art.
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