Stone 21st Anniversary Hail to the Hop Thief Double IPA

Stone 21st Anniversary Hail to the Hop Thief Double IPA

The big wide world inspires our imagination and fuels our passions. Anything from music, film, beer, literature, architecture, food, engineering, poetry…all art forms essentially, including more beer. We steal with any and all things that possess the one value that we hold most dear: authenticity. The important thing of course is that ‘It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.’ So, what are we saying about this beer, exactly? We gave it our take. We took all there is to love about the IPA, got creative, dry-hopped it a lot, left it unfiltered and shared it openly in the hopes that in some way it may, in turn, inspire you. Hail to The Hop Thief, an original.
3.7
193 reviews
Escondido, United States

Community reviews

3.9 bottle - Hazy orange pour. The aroma is of citrus and floral hops. The intensely hopped flavor is bitter with citrus and tropical fruit and a big malt profile. Long, bitter finish. Really good.
3.8 650 ml bottle courtesy of MK. Pours a cloudy orange colour with modest-sized white head. Aroma is brown sugar, tropical fruit, toffee, resin and flowers. Flavour is rich and sweet with pineapple, melon, brown sugar, toffee, pine resin and floral character. Some warming booziness in the finish. Nice.
2.6 Tap @ Shilling. Hazy amber brown, good foamy head. Mild toffee aroma. Earthy disinfectant flavour. Very smooth. Doesn’t feel like 9.8%
3.6 Part of a flight at Whichcraft. Big citrus and tropical aroma with little bitterness.
3.0 Weich malzig-hopfiger Beginn, eher trocken, leicht alkoholische Noten. Vollmundig, langer Nachhall. Nett. 10/8/9/8//9
4.1 well shit. this is good. sharp hoppy fruity wild.
3.7 22oz bomber pours with a clear copper body that supports a thin dirty white head of foam that leaves behind some spotty lacing. The aroma offers up flowery sweet pineapple, pink pungent grapefruit, peach and then soft orange fruity candy. The taste delivers peach, flowery tangerine like citrus juiciness and then earthy fruity candy leading to some smooth sweet malts. Interesting hop profile. It is taking time for my palate to adjust to what's going on. Another few sips and papaya and pineapple seem to bubble out from under the flowery fruity earthy hop flavor. Hmmm. The hops seem a little too floral with a bit too much malt underneath. This one, for a change, isn't in my wheelhouse.
3.6 Very nice orange/brown appearance and glow. Smell of sweet tropical fruit, hops.. maybe some mango? Taste is complex.. bitter, fruity, malty... perhaps a touch of smoke. It's very good, but not great.
3.5 Keg at craft beer revolution. Pours hazy orange, nose is crystal malt, grainy, citrus, taste is sweet, caramel, huge crystal malt.
3.4 keg at the Edinburgh craft beer revolution... Deep amber... Thin white lacing.. Caramel crystal fruit nose.. Massive spangles.. juicy caramel crystal fruit.. Juicy fruits
3.9 Tried at Dead Crafty, Liverpool. amber colour with a thick white head. Aroma floral caramel and citrus. Taste caramel sweet and hoppy bitterness combine well. Full rich oily body.
3.9 18-11-17 // at 3. Mainzer CraftBeerMesse. Clear deep golden. Grassy floral nose. Sweet malty Body. Strong bitterness. Classic Westcoast.
3.8 Sampled @ 3. Mainzer Craftbier Messe 2017. A clear dark golden beer with a huge good lasting off-white head. Aroma of resinous bitter hops, citrus. Taste of mild sweet caramelish malt, citrusy bitter hops, resinous hops.
3.6 Rated on 11-16-2017. Draft. The appearance of this beer when served is a small head that is fully lasting, slightly hazy golden body, lively, fast rising carbonation, and a good amount of lacing. The aroma is citrus hops, some pine hops, tropical fruit, slightly earthy, and malt. The flavor presents light-medium bitterness, citrus hops, pine hops, tropical fruit, some booze, and a dry finish. The mouthfeel is moderate carbonation and this beer is medium bodied. This beer has a bitter lingering finish. It is quite tasty, worth trying and a beer that I would drink again.
3.8 On tap @ Craft Mainz 2017. Great intense deep floral nose. Sticky malty. Fantastic caramel and floral hops, very heavy and deep. Intense sticky, malty and rich. Caramel, sticky hops and moderate sweetish grain. Fantastic.
3.6 22oz bottle. Very solid imperial ipa. Monster hops - pretty noticeable alcohol. Overall solis
3.3 Bomber from Market Street Wine Shop, Uptown. Pours amber with an off-white head. Aroma is somewhat resiny, pine, stale hop. Flavor is resiny, but not overly so. Pine like mad, grapefruit peel, tropical fruit, burnt caramel.
4.0 Looks good. Beautiful orange pour, white head and lacing. Aromas of bright citrus, resin, tree sap. Tastes like it smells. Resin, sweet malts, orange rind. Very nice.
2.8 Tastes weird. Like Raisin Bran . Smells ok. Looks nice. Opaque ipa. Palate is perfect. Just it tastes like Raisin Bran. Why?!?!?🎚🎚🎚
3.8 Bomber. Hazy darker yellow pour. Nice carbonation. Piney nose. Full bodied with a thick resinous body. Flavors are sugar, honey, pine cones, and syrup. Nice 2IPA.
3.7 9.8%ABV. Double IPA. Poured out amber. 14ºSRM. Nose is sweet and malty and pretty much what you’d expect from a contemporary IPA. Aroma of ripe tangerines and Mandarins. Hint of pine and some herbal spiciness. Mouthfeel is juicy. Palate is malty sweet, there are flavors of honey, orange flower honey, toasted barley. Hops flavors are grapefruit peel, cilantro which is enduring with a pine finish. Finish is medium with a pine sappy bitter.
3.4 075 litre Bottle from Total Wine Laguna Hills. Cloudy Golden with medium white head.
3.8 Rich honeycomb, caramel, and grapefruit nose. Clear orange, medium yellow head, nice lace. Overripe orange, oats, lemongrass, apricot. Medium body, easy carbonation, resinous, hot. Unusually prominent maltiness from a Stone beer. This is a true DIPA. I drank this as a nightcap because I needed to get up early the next morning. I'm happy with that decision.
3.7 650ml brown bottle. Dark golden shade, unfiltered and hazy. Head is thin and white with decent lacing. Nose - light tropical fruit, citrus, alcohol. Taste - caramel, fruity, tropical. Holds a nice tropical and fruity bitterness. Drinks nicely. I didn't realize this was and Imperial when I had it.
4.2 A hop monster for sure. From a 550ml bottle (August release) it pours hazy bright amber with a large dense white head that settles to a stable film. The nose offers pungent orangey citrus, dank pine resin, fresh tobacco and less marked fruit salad notes on top of the biscuit-caramel malt bill. Palate scraping hop bitterness dominates the tongue with a substantial citrus and resinous dry dank hop finish that lingers long after the swallow. Medium bodied and slick, a trace of booze at the end. Excellent DIPA from one of the originals.
4.3 Aroma of pine, taste is piney, earthy, fruity at the back of the palate, crisp finish, very good.
4.0 Tasted from a bomber. It poured a hazy amber hue with some floaters (it is unfiltered) and a big frothy head leaving thick blotchy lacing. Canned fruit cocktail aroma with a sweet, dank hop and malt taste that masks it's 9.8% ABV. 🎼I try to sing along, I get it all wrong, 'Cause I'm not, 'Cause I'm not. I swat em like flies but like flies, the buggers, keep coming back. But I'm not. All hail to the thief, All hail to the thief, But I'm not. But I'm not. But I'm not But I'm not.🎶
2.4 Poured from a 22oz bottle into a tulip. Cloudy orange with a medium off-white head that laces the glass. Aroma is citrus and peach, a bit earthy. Sticky on the lips. Taste is bad, dank, and off. Really unpleasant spoiled fruit. Barely got through the glass and poured the rest of the bottle out. Never had anything with the Stone label that was so bad. Yuck.
4.1 150ml serving at Stone Brewing Berlin. A: Pale shade of amber, slightly hazy, tanned head which left quite a bit of lacing. S: Strawberry dominated. T: Sweet strawberry flavoured malt, hints of fudge, booze barely registered apart from a tiny touch at the finish. M: Amazingly crisp texture for the high abv. O: Seriously good, couldn't believe it was so strong.
3.9 22 oz bottle from Hoboken Vine. Murky darker orange color with a thick, foamy head that leaves some fairly strong beige lace. The nose is full of pine, resin, caramel, and spice. Some lighter tropical hop notes are hiding under there too. Drinks hoppy and fairly bitter. Pine hops. Alcohol. Full bodied, a little sticky, with a dry close. Pretty smooth on the mouth. It's a really nice old school DIPA flavor. You could pretty easily have guessed that this was closing in on 10%, it shows. Definitely tastes like a Stone beer. Good stuff.