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US News & World Report    |   April 07, 2016

Crafting a Future

Back in the early 1990s, a pair of craft beer aficionados bumped into one another at a weekend beer class on the University of California-Davis campus. That chance encounter ended up laying the groundwork for Stone Brewing Co., Southern California's largest craft brewery and the 10th-largest craft producer in the country.

Bloomberg    |   March 28, 2016

Stone Brewing's Koch on Opening Craft Brewery in Berlin

Greg Koch, Co-founder and CEO of Stone Brewing, on opening the first American craft brewery in Europe, and why he will never sell to "big beer."

Fast Company    |   March 25, 2016

How This Hopped-Up Brewery Is Bringing American Craft Beer To Germany

In a converted gasworks building in western Berlin's Mariendorf neighborhood, American craft beer brand Stone Brewing is engaged in an unusual project: Selling Germans--and Europeans in general--on the joys of bitter, hoppy beers like Stone IPA and the company's popular Arrogant Bastard Ale. Germans have traditionally enjoyed lagers and wheat beers that are a far cry from the IPAs that are fashionable on the American scene, but Stone hopes Europeans will go gaga for the alternative.

The Columbus Dispatch    |   March 16, 2016

Beer Review: Stone Brewing Co.'s Pataskala Red X IPA

Greg Koch, Stone's co-founder and CEO, is a Pataskala native, and he created this beer to fulfill a promise to voters in the Southwest Licking Local school district, that if they passed an emergency operating levy in May 2015, he would create a beer just for them and donate proceeds to the schools.

DRAFT Magazine    |   March 16, 2016

First look: Stone beers soon to be available in cans

You saw it here first: Stone Brewing today announced plans to roll out two of its most popular beers in cans, starting with Stone IPA in a 12-pack of 12-ounce cans beginning in May.

USA Today    |   March 04, 2016

Battle between big beer and craft beer escalates

Greg Koch, co-founder and CEO of the nation's ninth-largest craft brewery San Diego area's Stone Brewing Co., in a recent San Diego Tribune editorial, bemoaned the recent sale of three area breweries.

Thrillist    |   March 02, 2016

25 San Diego Beers To Drink Before You Die

Stone Brewing's Arrogant Bastard [may be] the most definitive West Coast beer there is. Its inception began the hop-crazy movement of the early San Diego beer scene, which helped turn the beer drinking populace onto the concept of aroma and hop profiles.

RVA News    |   March 02, 2016

PHOTOS: Stone Brewing's Stone Company Store

RVA News -- Is your heart made of stone? Guess, what, Stone Brewing's Stone Company Store is now open! We got a preview of Stone Company Store, the brewery's on-site taproom and retail outlet.

West Coaster    |   February 16, 2016

RIP Stone Farms

Truth be told, many small farms are struggling these days. Stone is currently working with the land owner to find a suitable tenant to take over the lease and maintain the property. Back at its restaurants, Stone will continue to source produce from smaller, local, organic farmers.

The San Diego Union Tribune    |   February 13, 2016

Stone Brewing just says no to 'Big Beer'

San Diego Union Tribune -- Stone has had a front-row seat to the dramatic growth and evolution of craft beer. We've gone from seven employees and brewing 800 barrels the first year, to more than 1100 employees and 330,000 barrels in 2015.