Stone Ruination IPA was the first full-time brewed and bottled West Coast double IPA on the planet. As craft beer has evolved over the years, so too have techniques for maximizing hop flavors and aromas. For the second incarnation of our groundbreaking India pale ale, we employ dry hopping and hop bursting to squeeze every last drop of piney, citrusy, tropical essence from the hops that give this…
Originally brewed to celebrate our first anniversary in 1997, Stone IPA was an immediate hit and soon became the flagship beer of our young brewery. One of the most well-respected and best-selling IPAs in the country, this golden beauty explodes with tropical, citrusy, piney hop flavors and aromas, all perfectly balanced by a subtle malt character. Over time, we stepped up the dry-hopping…
Pat-ASK-ala? Pata-SKALA? Pa-TASK-a-la? While those in the know favor the third pronunciation, no matter how you say it, this is a unique red IPA. The beer was first brewed in September 2015 to support music and arts education programs in Pataskala, Ohio, where Stone co-founder Greg Koch grew up. People there loved it, so we added the beer to our seasonal lineup, and the Pataskala name stuck. The…
The coffee notes in Stone Americano Stout are bold, rich and full of American swagger. For each 120-barrel batch, we incorporated over 250 lbs. of artisanal espresso-roast beans into the mash and added in Columbus, Chinook, Amarillo and Cascade hops to invigorate the coffee taste with a slight citrus and resin hop presence. When it came time to selecting our coffee, we chose the same local…
Just like its golden envelope-pushing counterpart, Stone Enjoy By Black IPA is intensely hoppy and should be enjoyed über fresh to experience its vibrant stone and tropical fruit flavors and dankness.
This double IPA’s dark-colored malt canvas comes from German Sinamar and from Patagonia Black Pearl barley, which adds a pleasingly smooth taste. The hop profile is predominantly Australian,…
After brewing this intense double IPA with more than 10 different hops and consistently delivering it faster than any bottled IPA on the planet, we decided to do something different with this Stone Enjoy By IPA—we took it to another level, again. Puréed tangerines were added to the batch to create a devastatingly fresh IPA with a tang of tangerine. The flavors yielded by this addition …
In 2013, we released the second “Odd Beers for Odd Years” versions of our Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine and Stone Imperial Russian Stout and, in my opinion, these are the best we’ve done so far. 2013 Stone Old Guardian OAK-SMOKED Barley Wine was great fresh and is aging…
March. You know this time of year…spring is upon us, green is everywhere and excitement is in the air with everyone starting to amp up their social lives once again. So, in the spirit of all of this social activity, we decided to create some fun of our own. With our new Stone IPA packaging design update being the catalyst, we are dedicating…
We spent our first ten years as a company on Mata Way, an unassuming little cul-de-sac encircled by warehouses and industrial buildings with modest office areas. It was in one of these multi-tenant tilt-ups that Steve and I decided to lease a suite for the home of the then “just-a-glint-in-our-eyes” Stone Brewing Co. We took occupancy on February 1, 1996.
To say it was a different time in…
