ruination's 10th anniversery

1.013 to 1.014 was the gravity of the sample I degassed last night. That puts the OG around 1.096; this is a really flipping big beer.

Wow.

This is a beautiful beer. I got schmammered on it by accident. 22oz of 10.8% beer sneaks up on you quick. I also hope they make it a seasonal as I'd drink a lot more of it!

socalhomebrewer said:

Great point, but I find it hard to make a good clone. If anyone has a good recipe, i would love to try it out. But for me it's hard to justify making a clone of this as I can get a the freshest version 2L growler for $10 or so and 10 miles away.

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I brewed Yoopers regular ruination clone and it's carbing now. Of course I had to sub the hops, but we'll see how it turns out. Anyone else make this recipe (Yooper's)?

Let us know on the Anniversary recipe!

Her recipe looks very close. I would personally tweak it as follows. Whether that would have any noticeable difference on the final beer, I don't know. You'd probably only notice a little more dry hop character from the extra dry hops. This is knowledge from brewer interviews, and from taking their tour. If you email them, they are very helpful.

14.5lbs 2-row (adjust based on your eff %)
12oz Great Western Crystal 15
Mash around 150*
1.6oz CTZ @ 90
1.6oz Centennial @ 30
1.6oz Centennial @ 0
3.2oz Centennial Dry Hopped.
WLP007 - Dry English Ale yeast.

That's exactly 2.5lbs/bbl of hops (what ruination has). It has 1lb/bbl of hops in the dry hop, and .5lb/bbl everywhere else. Those numbers make sense to me because it would be more what Stone would actually do. You'd also want to allow the flameout hops to steep hot for at least 15 minutes or so, as Stone would add those hops in the whirlpool.

scottland said:

You'd also want to allow the flameout hops to steep hot for at least 15 minutes or so, as Stone would add those hops in the whirlpool.

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That's what I do too. My flamout hops are added at flameout (duh) and aren't bagged. They cool slowly with the wort over 20 minutes. I don't bag any hops. Just cold-crashed for 48 hours and all hops had fallen...no need to have bagged them.

So my local bottle shop was limited to getting 3 cases of this brew. I bought 1 bottle to try, then figured I would determine how worthy of additional bottles I should buy. I went back and bought a case. Yesterday, I went back and bought the last 3 they had to ensure I had enough to store, as well as drink on my vacation.

I'm not sure how many have reviewed stones pages in recipe formulation but here is their page on the ruination 10th.

http://www.stonebrew.com/ruintenth/

I'm off to the del mar international beer fest!

I wouldn't store it for too long. IPAs are much better fresh.

The brewery has a few scheduled growler fill days coming up over the next two months, I'll have to make the trip down for one of those.

Operation Ruination Procurement was a success this weekend. I bought five bottles from bevmo, as well as one of Jamil's Evil Cousin. Clone should get brewed this weekend or next.

just had it over the weekend and was highly impressed, very well balanced for 10.8%

scottland said:

Operation Ruination Procurement was a success this weekend. I bought five bottles from bevmo, as well as one of Jamil's Evil Cousin. Clone should get brewed this weekend or next.

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Nice, I didn't think any bevmos still had any. I noticed that my local brewpub has a couple Heretic bottled beers, but I haven't tried any yet. Be sure to post the updates on the clone.

This is really an incredible beer, our Eureka burger blew through three kegs in a little over a week, I had one on a Wednesday, and came back the next Saturday, and it was still on the board, but empty. I found two bottles in a mexican market the next county over, then tried really searching for it, and when I did, only one shop had it, and was limiting customers to one bottle each, because it did not come through the distributor, but through someone else. They had said there was some ridiculously low amount of cases were issued in this county, along with the smoked porter w/vanilla and w/chipotle, and the dogfish victory collaboration from the stone issue, which this shop received only one case of each. I heard the same one-per-customer limit at Wine Warehouse in Los Angeles.
The Vanilla smoked porter was extremely interesting as well, it was strangely like a dry cream soda, with a nice oily, lingering mouthfeel.

There's still some Bevmos in socal that have some. You can check the inventory for each store on their website.

My bevmo's online inventory said "out of stock", went in, and they hadn't received it yet, and the status for the order was "active"

The one in Irvine (off the 5 and Culver) had like 2 cases as of yesterday.

I'm tempted to hold on to a few, but I know I'll kick myself either way.

I've got two more bottles and I'm planning on getting a growler fill (maybe two, I should have my wife get one too) and beyond that I'll be trying out scottland's clone recipe and hoping Stone decides to make it a seasonal or regular release. It wouldn't be the first time, SSR started as the 11th Anniversary.

Enjoyed one of these last week- fantastic beer. Have to say I prefer it to the standard version, and am really glad I live in SD. This stuff is everywhere.

Just picked up four at the Pasadena BevMo. They have 7 cases left!

Does anyone have any idea how large of a production this beer had?

Drinking one right now! Superbly delicious!

Mine is cooling down a little and about to go down the hatch!

odinsgift said:

Does anyone have any idea how large of a production this beer had?

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Not enough!! Seriously!!
I have one bottle left, then ill go get growler fills till that runs out...
Igotsand

Just tried to find some at Total Wine and More in NV. And no luck

I had four and just popped my last one. Just drove from 1 am until 8pm. Definitely needed!

I picked up 2 from my local beer store and was surprised at only $6 per 22oz. Quite tasty!

Alright, This Sunday I'm brewing the clone recipe I posted earlier in this thread. I need to get a massive starter of WLP007 going today; around 5qts, maybe 6. I've never brewed a beer this big, that needed to attenuate this much, that didn't have the help of some simple sugar. So.... We'll see.

SocalNat said:

I picked up 2 from my local beer store and was surprised at only $6 per 22oz. Quite tasty!

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I really expected it to cost more, but Bevmo was selling it for 80 cents more than regular Ruination.

Alright, brew day is under way. 22.25 pounds of grain, whew

Are you drinking another?

Going to crack one open in about an hour =) I've got a bottle of regular ruination for today as well

I split a bottle with my girlfriend last night. I liked it, but it was definitely not an every day of the week beer.

ktblunden said:

I sent Stone an email saying how good this one is and begging them to make it a seasonal. The response was as follows:

Hey Kevin,

Rarely do I say this, but I agree with EVERYTHING you said 100%. It’s a huge beer with incredible balance that drinks dangerously well…and I can’t get enough of it. I’m going to be heartbroken to see it go and it seem stop be disappearing fast. We actually sold 90 cases of Stone Ruination Tenth Anniversary IPA in five days here at the brewery, which was our total allotment. That means we’re out of it, which, in turn, means I’m pretty bummed.

I hope we make this one a seasonal too and I’ll continue to beg and plead on the behalf of Stone Ruination Tenth Anniversary IPA fans everywhere.

Thanks for writing us Kevin. I appreciate it.

Cheers!

Phillip MacNitt
Indoctrination Specialist

So to everyone looking to try this (and people looking for more) better hurry up. I already checked all the places near me and they're sold out already.

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That's MY BOY Phil! I got dialed in this last Friday with a 2L Growler fill! Phil also plays in the Stone Band. Here's a link to some video I shot from the 10 year party. He slaps da bass. http://youtu.be/roN-ZfiI4y8

Batch came in at 1.093. A couple points shy, but not bad. If I finish at 1.014 that's 10.4% ABV, I would need 1.011 to hit 10.8%. I pitched a decanted 5QT starter of WLP007 at 64*, and set the fermenter fridge at 65*.

I think this could come out dangerously close. We'll see, I'm saving a bottle to compare. Figure a 4 day ferment for 007, I'll rack to secondary around day 10, and have it Kegged around 10 days after that. Updates to follow

scottland said:

Batch came in at 1.093. A couple points shy, but not bad. If I finish at 1.014 that's 10.4% ABV, I would need 1.011 to hit 10.8%. I pitched a decanted 5QT starter of WLP007 at 64*, and set the fermenter fridge at 65*.

I think this could come out dangerously close. We'll see, I'm saving a bottle to compare. Figure a 4 day ferment for 007, I'll rack to secondary around day 10, and have it Kegged around 10 days after that. Updates to follow

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Yes keep us posted. I will have to brew this since I can't get it here.

Ferment was going nuts this morning. I turned the temp down to 63*, and changed out the airlock for a blow-off tube. WLP007 gets to work quick.

Had this over the weekend. It's in my top 2-3 for triple IPAs. It's ridiculously good and smells of raw hops. Seriously, it's like holding a bag of raw hops and taking a whiff. Stupid good.

thisgoestoeleven said:

I split a bottle with my girlfriend last night. I liked it, but it was definitely not an every day of the week beer.

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Who says so?

As a bit of an aside, for those in SoCal, Fresh and Easy markets has Ruination IPA priced the same as the regular Pale Ale and IPA at $3.99 which is a pretty nice deal.