This is the beer that Goto Statement v2 should have been. It was a nice beer but in no way could be called Stone Goto IPA. The resultant flavour was nicely bitter, like Stone. It didn’t however have as near a full bouquet as Stone Goto IPA. The colour was also significantly darker.
It also definitely benefited from a period of maturation. Four weeks post fermentation and it’s suddenly become easily drinkable.
It’s amazing the difference that fermentation temperature can make. The dip in temperature at the end of fermentation was due the float sensor in the kettle killing the power to the heater because of evaporation. Thankfully after topping up, the system reverted to normal operation.