Was really excited to have a bit of Stone IRS, but was bummed upon pouring it to get lots of sour, barnyard, and funk. This was the normal IRS too, not one of the flavored variants. It definitely tasted infected, not just like the bottle had gone bad. Did anyone else experience this, or were we just unlucky? It's really unlike Stone to have infected beers, they've usually been really consistent quality-wise.
Posted Sep 11, 2015, 2:38 AM UTC
I haven't had any in months, but it tasted roasty and smooth as ever when I did. It would be pretty surprising to me for Stone to have an infected batch, especially for it not to be big news as widely distributed as they are, but certainly anything is possible. Maybe I'll see if I can pick up another bottle this weekend.
I would contact the brewery, that's crazy.
Give them a call, I'm sure they would love to hear from you either way. The are passionate about not having bad beer on the market. I don't think I've had the straight IRS but a month or so ago I was able to get a growler fill of the 2013 Espresso IRS and oh baby was it good.
I remember the bottle I cracked open a while back had something off about it.
It didn't gush, but there was some kind of metallic lingering funk. This was back in April, so if there was an off batch/bottling, it could certainly have gotten worse since then.
I'm not sure if its just me, but a lot of the bottles of RIS I've picked up in the last couple years have had a metallic taste to them. I usually just cellar them and it goes away, but its something I never noticed before
Metallic flavor is probably oxidization. It could be a problem with bottling.
Yup, but there was something else outside of the metallic going on.
Now that is strange. I've been slowly selling through a couple cases at my work and everyone has reported back the same: normal RIS is wonderful, Chai RIS is a starbucks atrocity.
Definitely contact stone. Weird that such a high ABV beer would end up so funky.
I thought chai was banging.
I have a theory a lot of breweries are releasing infected beers as sours. No word of it being a sour on the label, but when you look the beers up. they are labeled as sours. I mean it's a cute way to hide the fact that you fucked up. example: Lazy Magnolia Old Money.
Contact Stone, make sure you note any printing on the bottle and/or other packaging.
Interesting, as barnyard and fuck are not synonymous with sour. It would seem that your beer was fermented and infected with things that should not be present.
Are all the bottles this way? Or just one?
I'd contact the bruery.
I wouldn't. I don't think they released it
Oh
Whoooooosh.
Yeah, I made the joke.
You're right, it was a collaboration with Jester King too