Stone Enjoy By 10.31.15 – Too much booze, not enough hops

Over the last week, the latest in Stone Brewing’s Enjoy By IPA Series has started hitting shelves around south Louisiana. Stone takes a lot of care to get this beer in beer drinkers’ hands as quickly as possible, with the drink by date actually being the name of the beer. Hoppy beers like IPAs should always be enjoyed fresh, and I love that Stone really emphasizes that with not only Enjoy By, but with all of their IPAs. They recently started dating their hoppy beers with both the bottled date and the drink by date, which is a great move in my opinion. But they take it a step further with Enjoy By.

This exquisite liquid patchwork of more than a dozen hops is a devastatingly fresh double IPA. Freshness is a key component of many beers – especially big, hoppy IPAs – but we’ve taken it further, a lot further, with this one. We brewed this IPA specifically NOT to last. We’ve gone to extensive lengths to ensure you get your hands on this beer within an extraordinarily short window, and we’ve

…