Favorite Stone Beers

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  1. Joshmistake

    Joshmistake Initiate (0) Sep 4, 2012 Minnesota

    This was mentioned in another thread...so I thought I'd start it off:

    Fav specialty releases:
    -Mikhails Odd (Espresso Imperial Russian Stout aged in Bourbon Barrels)
    -2013 Southern Charred (Double Bastard aged in Charred Bourbon Barrels)
    -09.09.09 Vertical Epic
    -Matt's Burning Rosids
    -Anniv Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout (12th?)
    -Dayman Coffee IPA
    -Ken Schmidt / Iron Fist / Stone Mint Chocolate Stout

    Fav year-around releases:
    -Smoked Porter (easily my fav Porter, especially as it warms up)
    -Ruination IPA (this beer consistently kicks ass...overlooked by too many IPA fans)
     
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  2. emount91

    emount91 Initiate (0) Aug 28, 2015 Connecticut

    Ruination 2.0 IPA and Thunderstruck are my 2 favorites, Enjoy By is great too.
     
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  3. jbertsch

    jbertsch Pooh-Bah (2,874) Dec 14, 2008 Massachusetts
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    The IRS is perfection in my eyes.

    That 09 vertical Epic was phenomenal.

    I like just about anything they do so it's hard to choose. All the hoppy offerings are great.

    The only Stone beers I remember flat-out not liking were:

    · Vanilla smoked porter

    · Oak Aged AB

    · Stochasticity Grapefruit slam IPA
     
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  4. TriggerFingers

    TriggerFingers Initiate (0) Apr 29, 2012 California

    My favorite? Enjoy By. I like the old version of Ruination...had the 2.0 again last night on tap and it was good, but not like the original. Also...AB is always good. I was gifted some Stone Pale recently by my father-in-law...that was so much better than I remember it being.
     
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  5. BMBCLT

    BMBCLT Grand Pooh-Bah (3,427) May 9, 2014 South Carolina
    Pooh-Bah

    Xocoveza
    Espresso Imperial Russian Stout
    Imperial Russian Stout
    Coffee Milk Stout
     
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  6. Crim122

    Crim122 Initiate (0) Aug 4, 2014 North Carolina

    Arrogant Bastard has a soft spot in my heart because it really helped me get into craft beer. Thanks to their brilliant marketing, I legitimately only bought the beer for the label/story on the back. But after having Xocoveza, that's my favorite from them. The "Enjoy By" series is always fantastic as well.
     
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  7. nick0417

    nick0417 Initiate (0) Jun 13, 2014 Illinois

    Stone Xocoveza
    Stone Imperial Russian Stout
    Stone Double Bastard
     
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  8. gmoneyproductions

    gmoneyproductions Initiate (0) Aug 12, 2015 Colorado

    sublimely self righteous black ipa for me
    followed closely by Ruinten
     
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  9. nickfern

    nickfern Initiate (0) Oct 17, 2015 New Jersey

    In no particular order:
    • Enjoy By
    • DayMan Coffee IPA
    • R&R Stone Coconut IPA
    • Vertical 09
     
    #9 nickfern, Dec 4, 2015
  10. monkeybeerbelly

    monkeybeerbelly Initiate (0) Dec 6, 2012 New York

    1.smoked porter
    2.ruinten
    3.IRS
    and i miss SSR
     
    #10 monkeybeerbelly, Dec 4, 2015
  11. Hatfield_223

    Hatfield_223 Initiate (0) Nov 26, 2013 Virginia

    Southern Charred
    Wootstout (if that counts, I know it's a collaboration)
    Enjoy By
    Thunderstruck
     
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  12. cjohns73

    cjohns73 Initiate (0) Dec 19, 2010 Delaware

    Funny, the Grapefruit Slam to me was one of my favorite specialties from them. Thunderstruck was amazing also.

    Ruination 2.0 and Enjoy By are year-round favorites. As a different one, my wife and I both really like the Cali-Belgique.
     
    #12 cjohns73, Dec 4, 2015
  13. Eraserhead123

    Eraserhead123 Initiate (0) Sep 16, 2014 Colorado

    • DayMan Coffee IPA
     
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  14. Buschyfor3

    Buschyfor3 Savant (1,083) Jan 4, 2009 Kentucky

    Xocoveza
    IRS and its odd-year variants
     
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  15. NumberNone

    NumberNone Initiate (0) Mar 12, 2012 Maryland

    Double Bastard is probably my favorite of theirs. I think the diatribe printed on the bottle clinched it for me. Also pretty fond of IRS and Enjoy By, and I thought the 2.0 version of W00tstout was vastly superior to the original.
     
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  16. Scott17Taylor

    Scott17Taylor Initiate (0) Oct 28, 2013 Iowa
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    Enjoy by
    Enjoy by
    And enjoy by
    I'm not a huge stone fan but enjoy by is definitely one of my favorite beers.
     
    #16 Scott17Taylor, Dec 4, 2015
  17. Jpinoniemi

    Jpinoniemi Initiate (0) Mar 16, 2014 Ohio

    I'm fairly new the craft beer game, but Thunderstruck was awesome, Imperial Russian Stout and Chai-Spiced Imperial Russian Stout
     
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  18. jbertsch

    jbertsch Pooh-Bah (2,874) Dec 14, 2008 Massachusetts
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    It's funny - I love Stone, but I don't share everyone's love for Enjoy By. It's just...fine to me. I'd rather reach for the Ruination or the regular IPA.
     
    #18 jbertsch, Dec 4, 2015
  19. stickboy1125

    stickboy1125 Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2012 Virginia

    Ruination (original, don't care for 2.0)
    IPA
    17th Anniversary
    Ruinten
    Enjoy By
     
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  20. LuskusDelph

    LuskusDelph Initiate (0) May 1, 2008 New Jersey

    I don't buy much commercial beer (the vast majority of it is really not any better than what I can brew in my basement)...but with regard to the Stone offerings, I do think that Arrogant Bastard is a gem of a brew and probably my favorite of their range (and it lives up to it's name, too).
    Very good stuff.
     
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