BeerAdvocate CoverI got the new BeerAdvocate Magazine last week. Cool. I always enjoy reading it. New happenings, interesting perspectives, current goings on…it’s a good read. Love the visual tone too, and this time I thought it was especially cool that the mag featured my friend Kjetil Jikiun on the cover. Also…
If you read the blog, you know that Steve Via broke our keg line record a few weeks ago. Well, Keg Masta Steve isn’t the only one around here kicking ass and taking names. Our bottling line crew recently set a new record by bottling a staggering 137,088 12-ounce bottles of Stone IPA and OAKED Arrogant Bastard Ale (95 pallets and 12…
Thought you might like to learn about the results of the recent epic “Beer vs. Wine Dinner” at the Rancho Bernardo Inn’s highly regarded “El Bizcocho” restaurant. First, a short recap of what the dinner was all about….
- The recent October 16, 2009 dinner was the third in a 3-year series.
- The premise is simple: A multi-course fine-dining dinner served with a…
When I was a kid, my mom had an old green Volkswagen bus, you know, similar to the one in Scooby-Doo; the iconic hippie-mobile. At the time I was really embarrassed by my mother’s eccentric taste in automobiles, but looking back it made perfect sense. The beads in her hair, the penchant for woodworking, and the green VW bus all pointed to one thing—she was a TOTAL hippie. Naturally, hippies were…
2016 marks our 20th anniversary year here at Stone Brewing! When we started talking about our annual Super Sunday kickoff, Calm Before the Storm, we knew we wanted to take the event to the next level. For me that meant the opportunity to share my love for amazing food and beer pairings. This year I’ve paired six…
This year is going to be a BIG year. Yeah, we know it sounds like something nearly every hopeful individual and company says at the beginning of every year but this year is not just any year. It marks our 20th Anniversary and we have planned a lot of exciting, hop-centric happenings and beer releases to celebrate our TWENTY YEARS of brewing big, bold beer! Below we broke down everything we have…
I wrote this letter to Team Stone to share my experiences with them and express – as best I could – this incredible journey I’m on. That same gratitude for your commitment and desire to share this experience extends to you, our fans. Thanks for coming along on this ride with us.Notes to the team from the European tour with Metallica and Enter Night PilsnerTwenty-four-…
In preparation for our Epic Eve Dinner and the Stone Epic Festival: The Final Chapter, our all-out festival celebrating all 11 vintages in our Vertical Epic Ale series, Chef Alex Carballo and “Dr.” Bill Sysak teamed up to develop nearly two-dozen recipes for dishes that…
You can deck the halls with as many boughs of holly as you can get your mittened hands on, but without plates, bowls, baskets and platters of tasty holiday-themed sustenance scattered around your decked out abode, those decorations are bound to be a bit for naught. You can’t eat holly or mistletoe (or at least you shouldn’t), and those candy canes and stale popcorn hanging on the tree just won’t…
by Lee Chase
For those who didn’t get any Stone 02.02.02 Vertical Epic Ale and have to make their own, here is an all-grain homebrew recipe to help you out. Your results may vary (wink).
NOTE: I have added a fair amount of detail, but the novice brewer should consult a guidebook such as The Complete Joy of Homebrewing by Charlie Papazian.
The grist follows in…
