This is one of those things that is not terrible, but also is not good enough that you would seek it out again, mainly because this IPA still tastes like a normal beer with some lemon juice added.

The fermenty flavors of regular American beer, tamed a bit, intrude on the IPA nature of this beer, so that instead of a nice lemony bitter diatribe of forgotten hopes and failed dreams, you get a Michelob that someone poured a little bit of a real IPA into.

It is not bad. Far from it, it is very pleasant. But like most things California, it is mostly hype, and so you get fooled in the moment, but once you go home to think it through, you see the self-interest behind the hype and never will return.

Tags: beer, india pale ale, mock heaven, stone brewing, stone IPA