Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA Returns

Came in last week. Everything I remember, tasting great. Plucked two 6pks off the shelf @$16.99.

Bottle says, buy this batch up and force us to make it again!

Cheers All....

 

I enjoy reading the legend on the back of Stone bottles. Some of them are quite good.
I'm still trying to be worthy!

 

The January 5th bottling is tasting great. BB May 5th so a 4 month window.

 

It checks ALL the boxes for me, and for a guy that likes bitter west coast style beers it's a bit of a change without changing, if you get my drift.

 

glad I got something right.

 

Killing off Levitation right when "session" beers were taking off, really made me question what they were doing down in Escondido.

I suppose it might say more about the tastes of new craft beer drinkers, but it was SUCH a good beer. The sad fact is that "good beers" don't sell great and therefore don't get cooler space. A sad casualty of the craft "boom"... which has morphed IMO from getting people access to great beers, to now where people are inundated at every step of the retail and on premise journey with tons of, frankly, crap-ola that is made locally or whatever but isn't good, and worse is just a derivative replica of something else that wasn't even good to start off with.

Looking forward to picking up SSR, for sure.

 

Not in my area's TWs as yet.

 

I found this at my local Trader Joe's. Takes me back, back, back... Back to a time before gimmicky marketing campaigns, bottles printed upside down, and all IPAs, all the time. Ohhhh yeah.

 

I just had my first bottle. Wow! This is extremely an extremely complex beer. SSR completely lives up to its hype as far as I’m concerned.

 

This beer was as good as I remembered years ago... and that rarely happens.

 

There’s still a small amount around northeast Ohio. Last week, the Giant Eagle by me had three sixers left. Another beverage store had 5 sixers. My regular store sold out in a week.
I also hope the sales encourages another release.

 

What are you folks paying for a 6pack? I paid +$16.

 

$16.99

 

Sprouts has it on sale for $12.99 “managers special”. Just grabbed my second 6 from spouts, 3rd overall. Man that Amarillo comes through so big! The more I drink it the more I like it. Hope It comes back again.

 

Almost grabbed some back East today. Held off with the December brew date.

 

I had one as recent as a week ago and it was still holding up.

 

Only have 3 of 12 left.....

Drinking one now, been refrigerated whole time.

Tasting amazing. Tons of dark fruit and some resin.

Wish I had more.

 

Got a 6 pack of this recently. Likely will get another soon. I'm so glad this beer has made a return. Good call Stone!

Eric