Dried orange and apricot tartness plus peachy pineapple tanginess stay the course above pasty caramel-salted honeyed oats spine.
STONY CREEK DOUBLE RUFFLED DOUBLE IPA
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STONY CREEK LA GARZA MEXICALI STYLE LAGER
Easygoing, stylishly nebulous, Mexican lager with laidback rice-milked flaked corn sweetness, mild lemon liming and wispy floral spicing gains gluey residue soaking toasted cereal graining. Suffices sweeter light pilsner thirsts.
STONY CREEK CRANKENSTEIN
“Unorthodox” limited edition (2019) West Coast/ New England-styled IPA merger slightly overstates its ‘experimental’ aspect. Though bright lemon-peeled orange and pineapple tanginess brings solid West Coast influence, its sourly acidic New England styling seems adrift as limey passionfruit, vinous green grape tannins and candied pineapple tartness never fully integrate. Mild lemongrass snip also informs mildly hopped moderation.
STONY CREEK RIPE & CRANKY BLOOD ORANGE IPA
“Aggressively laidback” India Pale Ale with tart blood orange juicing receives mildly sour lemon pucker. Sedate pineapple, mango and guava tropicalia secures blood orange adjunct sufficiently while sugary vanilla respite sweetens the back end.
STONY CREEK STONY JOE GOLDEN MOCHA STOUT
On tap at Curley’s, lovely golden-hued mocha stout cushions fulsome Guatemalan coffee roast with flaked barley-oats and dark chocolate malting. Fertile creamed coffee decadence lingers way above astringent hop char. Golden delight. Five years hence, canned version let milk-sugared Guatemalan coffee frontage fade into caramelized cream soda midst contrasting green peppered celery watering over mild barley-oats flaked sweetness.
STONY CREEK CRANKY IPA
Stylishly thin canned India Pale Ale maintains “aggressively laid-back” temperament, mildly black-peppered piney hop bittering and dainty floral respite. Light yellow grapefruit, orange, mango and lemon zesting brightens the overall tone.
STONY CREEK SUN JUICE
Sunshiny ‘Belgian summer ale’ brings sour lemon bruise to sunny orange-peeled grapefruit tang above mild pilsner wheat malting. Light chamomile herbage and coriander spicing get sweetened by subsidiary mandarin orange, peach, pear and banana fruiting.
