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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…
We get a lot of feedback of all sorts. We respond to 99% of it. I don't have the opportunity to do that much of the responding...trying to do my job and all of helping Steve to run the company...but from time to time I do get the chance to have a bit of a dialog. Often, the ones that come to me are the ones…
If you’ve been to Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens, you’ve probably noticed that we have an entire acre of completely organic, fully sustainable Gardens attached to the Bistro. Some refer to them as our “Beer Gardens,” not knowing just how accurate that label really is. Truth is, we maintain our Gardens using by-products from the brewing process, resulting in real honest to goodness “Beer…
As the title of this post indicates, I'm not taking the point of view that we came up with something entirely new or that we're by any stretch of the imagination ahead of the curve on this one. You guys have been hounding me for well over 12 months to put upcoming events and growler fills on Google so you could subscribe via your web calendars, calendar applications and wireless devices. Instead…
When it came to the 2016 Stone Spotlight Series competition, brewers Brandon Jacobs & Alex Rodriguez said, “Screw it! Let’s brew something Stone would ‘never’ brew.” They took this independent, go their own way mentality and combined a Finnish sahti, medieval European gruit and Belgian imperial wit together. In doing so, they invented a new beer style they nicknamed SahGruWit—say it fast a…
You may not have heard, but we have a really cool homebrew competition happening on Saturday, March 21st in the Gardens. It's part of an American Homebrewer's Association Rally we're holding that day to get more people to join the AHA. By joining that day for $33 you get all the cool perks for being a member, but…
For eons the sun has perched brightly in the sky casting nurturing rays of light, heating our quaint little blue globe and making life possible. But every once in a while, we begrudge our beloved burning ball of gas for ruining the one thing many of us love most in life—BEER. Yes it’s true; UV light can skunk even the stoutest beers. Most astute brewers and beer drinkers are well aware of this,…
Sometimes you just get lucky. Maybe you take a chance on an obscure beer and happen to discover your new favorite. Or perhaps you stumble across a poor orphaned $20 dollar bill and decide to give it a home (after an exhaustive search for it’s owner, of course). Recently, our luck came in the form of Dr. Bill. If you don’t know who Dr. Bill is, then you haven’t been going to the right parties.…
Gold Medal for Winter Ales, and tied #2 on the highest overall score!
We were stoked to find out that our last collaboration ale, Jolly Pumpkin / Nøgne-Ø / Stone Special Holiday Ale, took a gold medal in the Winter Ale category of the World Beer Championships. We’re glad to see our collaboration with Ron…
