by Lee Chase
This year, the Vertical Epic has taken another turn…but this time toward the simpler! I wanted to highlight a couple of things with this brew, with particular attention being paid to the future flavor development of the beer. You know, keeping it fairly simple, but making it relatively high-alcohol and full of flavor. Having had a bit of this in March, this baby…
by Lee Chase
So, it is year number 3 in the series… and we have the Stone 04.04.04 Vertical Epic Ale at hand. This is an interesting beer that, as with the others, will be wonderful to see how it develops over time. This year, as you probably know, is a pale beer that has a lot going on in the flavor and aroma…with a hint of Kaffir lime leaf in there to add some…
by Lee Chase
Alright, now this is going to be a little different than last years (OK, a LOT different!!). By now you might know that these "Vertical" beers are not just the same recipe as each other, they are designed to be quite different than each other. We are not trying to make the recipe as difficult to brew as possible (we're not doing triple decoctions, or aging…
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…
My job here at the brewery (tours, fan correspondence, special events, etc.) gives me the frequent and pleasurable opportunity to interact with our fans on a daily basis. I definitely think it’s important that people be able to connect with us on a personal level and understand, that behind all the Arrogance and bombast, we are in fact ordinary—but no less interesting and authentic—folks just…
If you fancy yourself a real bona fide beer geek, then you probably already know that 2009 Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine started hitting store shelves on Monday. As a bona fide beer geek who also happens to be a word geek (or maybe just a geek in general), I often find myself tirelessly scouring the label of every new beer I encounter in search of every last juicy bit of information--every last…
“Bittersweet” is a good way to describe the feedback we’ve received from our fans over the last year and a half since the release of 2007’s Stone 11th Anniversary Ale. Bittersweet. Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. The term is quite descriptive of the beer itself, of course, as it aptly describes the flavors of the esteemed big…
BeerAdvocate Cover
I 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. …
Each year we put out the word to "Drag your big fat cans over to Stone!" for our annual collection for the North County Food Bank. This time we had the fun idea to give a little incentive for your good deeds: If you manage to fill the food collection…
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Truth be told, they’ve been a pain in the ass since day one.
And that “day one” dates all the way back to 1999. First, it was a joyous pain….
It was the Stone 3rd Anniversary Open House. Our good friend Vince Marsaglia, stoked about the fact that we’d started to raise some nice…
