Topic Archives: Stone Enjoy After IPA Series
Stone Enjoy After 12.26.15 Released. Headed to 10 States
Stone Brewing Co. (Escondido, CA) now has two series for the IPA lover. One two drink as soon as you get it (Enjoy By IPA) and one for you two grab and hold on to for a while (Enjoy After IPA). Stone Brewing Co.’s Mitch Steele came up with recipe for Enjoy After Brett IPA.
Stone’s Mitch Steele came up with recipe the cellar ready beer. Stone Enjoy After 12.26.15 IPA uses Belgian “Ardennes” yeast, then is dosed with Brettanomyces yeast. It’s the Brett that is key to the long term change.
This IPA is spiked at bottling with Brettanomyces, a wild yeast that, over time, brings about charmingly unpredictable complexities of spice, funk, acidity and more. The operative words in our beer-cellaring thesis are “over time.” For those of you who are impatient or like to experiment, the earliest we recommend sampling this beer is 12.26.14. The beer won’t be fully carbonated until that date. Ideally, you’ll want to cellar the beer up to—or beyond—the Enjoy After date to help it reach its full evolutionary potential. At that point, some facets of the Brett characteristics will have mellowed, while others will have become more profound; it all matures into a fascinating and delicious culmination. Individual results will vary…and that’s both the beauty and the intent behind this beer.
Stone Enjoy After 12.26.15 IPA is available in 750ml bottles. This is the second release, and up to now has been limited.
Style: IPA
Hops: Super Galena, Simcoe, Delta, Target, Amarillo, Calypso and Cascade
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Distribution: AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, NM, NV, OR, TX and WA
7% ABV
Stone Launches Enjoy After 10.31.15
As a flipside to Stone Brewing Co.’s Enjoy By Series, the brewery has launched a new IPA you are supposed to cellar. Stone Enjoy After 10.31.15 is a IPA spiked with the wild yeast Brettanomyces, that will develop and carbonate the beer over time. You are buying a beer you’ll drink a year from the day you buy it.
…Ideally, you’ll want to cellar the beer up to-or beyond-the Enjoy After date to help it reach its full evolutionary potential. At that point, some facets of the Brett characteristics will have mellowed, while others will have become more profound; it all matures into a fascinating and delicious culmination. Individual results will vary…and that’s both the beauty and the intent behind this beer.
Stone Enjoy After 10.31.15 is available in limited 750ml bottles.
Style: American Wild Ale
Availability: 750ml Bottles. Limited
Distribution Area: TBA
7% ABV, 88 IBUs
