Shaun, Mitch, and Matt do "the Greg"On Friday, we had an all-star cast of brewers in the house working on our first collaboration beer of 2010. Shaun O’Sullivan of 21st Amendment and Matt Brynildson of Firestone Walker joined our very own Head Brewer Mitch Steele for one of our coolest collaborations yet. Since this was an all-California brewing…
Those of you who have visited the Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens know that we put a lot of effort into our outdoor spaces. But some of you may not be aware that the Gardens started its life as a barren storm water detention basin in a vacant industrial park. With help from Greg on the skip loader and a gaggle of volunteers, the staff and crew moved rocks, mixed mortar, and prepared the…
The Great American Beer Festival is the ne plus ultra beer event in the U.S.
For beer people, it’s like a combo Academy Awards/Star Trek convention/family reunion, with a dash of ancient Greek Bacchanalia thrown in for good measure.
For sheer size alone, nothing comes close to the GABF: 462 breweries serving 2,…
Here at Stone Brewing Co., we’re not content to merely work with awesome brewers from around the world on our collaboration beers. That’s why we’ve taken it a step further, by visiting a couple of our collaborators in their exotic homelands, brewing at their breweries, drinking their native beverages, and…eating their whales(?!) To capture these madcap adventures, we’ve created a documentary of…
You’re undoubtedly aware of our Stone Vertical Epic Ale series. You may even have a cellar stocked with previous incarnations of our annual (plus a month and a day) homage to the wondrous effects of Belgian yeast and transformative hand of Father Time.
So the series itself requires little introduction, but this year’s installment…
Did you hear that we wrote a book? It’s called The Craft of Stone Brewing: Liquid Lore, Epic Recipes, and Unabashed Arrogance.
We bet you hadn’t heard that, which is why we’re sending our demonstrative CEO & Co-Founder Greg Koch on a 9-city book…
From June 4th-11th, one hundred and ten lupulin-crazed bars competed in our “Most Bitter Bar Challenge.” The premise was simple: the bar that pours the most of Stone’s hop-focused beers wins the undying glory of being named "Most Bitter Bar" for a period of one year. And now, after counting each drop, we’re ready to announce…
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As you may have heard, we’ve got some big plans on the table (and in the ground.) The reason you may have heard this is that we had a special press day on Wednesday, in which we invited a group of journalists to join us on a tour of our ever-expanding operations.Now that our friends in the media have had a chance to feast on the news, we’re proud to announce this to you, our loyal blog…
