I post my tasting notes of good (and bad) beer that I find in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. I don't write snooty or nuanced reviews, nor do I only drink one style of beer.

I'll generally rate beers on this purposefully crude scale, with a few accompanying tasting notes:

0 = offensively bad
1 = bad
2 = meh (mediocre)
3 = good
4 = exceptional

Follow me for an eclectic mix of beers and info about where to find them. I am Stephen Goggin. When I'm not writing about good beer and drinking it, I'm a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley.

 

Stone’s 16th Anniversary IPA on tap at City Beer Store in SF. A 3 of 4. Interesting, and tons going on. That said, it doesn’t meld together very well - you get lemon in one sip, spicy rye in the next, massive bitterness in the next, some tropical fruit in the next, and you get the point. It’s cool it has all that complexity and is quite drinkable for a Stone IPA, but there’s almost too much disparate stuff going on in the body.

Stone’s 16th Anniversary IPA on tap at City Beer Store in SF. A 3 of 4. Interesting, and tons going on. That said, it doesn’t meld together very well - you get lemon in one sip, spicy rye in the next, massive bitterness in the next, some tropical fruit in the next, and you get the point. It’s cool it has all that complexity and is quite drinkable for a Stone IPA, but there’s almost too much disparate stuff going on in the body.

8 months ago