Tonight I decided to have the bottle of Stone's RuinTen IPA that I picked up recently.



This is a brew celebrating the 2012 10th anniversary of Stone's Ruination IPA. Ruination is a pretty robust IPA and this purports to be even more so.

This poured out a cloudy red-gold with a decent sized off-white head. Head faded fairly quickly. Aroma is piny citrus, not an overwhelming scent. Taste is very interesting. I get a creamy, grapefruit taste. It is very hop heavy and pretty bitter but it comes across as balanced by the 10.8% alcohol and a little bit of a malt taste. It is fairly smooth but the pronounced bitterness does make drinking this challenging for someone like me that doesn't have a preference for bitter beers. Definitely a good pick if you like the challenge of bitter beers.