It's no secret that we love making collaboration beers. We always have an amazing time brewing them, they've turned out great (if we may say so ourselves), and it gives us a chance to play around a little bit. To go a little further outside of the proverbial box. (Though admittedly, we were never quite certain about where this so-…
It's apparently mind blowing to some folks that for our first 15+ years, we'd never used Cascade hops in any of our beers. And now, seemingly out of the blue, we've gone and used Cascade in our two most recent beer releases: 2012 Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine and the…
I'm guessing you really don't care to hear about anything IRS-related now that it's mid-April, but stick with me here. This is a good IRS. It's the über-dark, roasty-toasty, decadently rich Stone Imperial Russian Stout, and as of April 16th, it's back again. For the twelfth time. (And for a limited…
Just one week after releasing the 2012 Stone Imperial Russian Stout, we've got another beer up our sleeves that's coming to a glass near you starting today. A few years ago, Greg and Steve were approached by Matt Bonney and Matt "Vern" Vandenberghe (aka "The Matts"), the almighty…
You know what the problem is with you young punk craft beer drinkers today? You don't know how good you've got it! Double IPAs everywhere, flowing like water! Heck, when I was your age, I had to trek over 100 miles uphill in the snow to get something even remotely hoppy! Oh, gosh, who am I kidding? I'm only 27. The fact is, *I* am a young punk, reveling in the bounty of lupulin-loaded libations…
Ah, Stone Smoked Porter. The second beer that we ever released, waaaaaay back in December of 1996. It's a good thing, too... the world was in need of something wonderful, what, with Macarena still tormenting the airwaves and Jingle All The Way polluting movie theater screens. Anyway, back…
Remember when we came out with that badass collaboration beer? What's that? Oh, which one, you ask? Yes, of course. We should be more specific, as they've all been pretty unbelievable. (And we're totally allowed to brag this hard because there were other brilliant brewers involved, so please consider this our way of supremely complimenting them... while giving ourselves just a little pat on the…
July 26, 1996. A sliver in time that shall go down in history as the day the world changed forever! Well, perhaps a bit of hyperbole, but it was the day that the first keg of Stone Pale Ale was ever sold. (Kudos to our buddy Vince Marsaglia from Pizza Port Solana Beach for coming…
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…
Ah, New Year’s Eve. For most people it’s a night filled with promise that typically ends in bleary disappointment. That tingle of excitement — born of a bold sense that this year will be the year of magical change — dies an early death as they sit on the couch at a friend of a friend’s, plastic red cup filled with…something, anything…TV excitedly blaring a tired staged celebration from somewhere…
