Stone 10th Anniversary IPA harkens back to our earlier Anniversary Ales, with abundant hopping at many stages of the brewing process. Appropriately, the aroma is over the top, with pronounced piney and resiny hop flavors combined with tropical fruit esters and more subtle notes of toasted malts and alcohol. Our Stone 10th Anniversary Ale weighs in at 10% alcohol by volume (perfect for a 10th…
As has been a tradition, we have “Anniversary-ized” a recipe from our history by cranking it up, making it stronger and more assertive. With this year’s anniversary we decided to look back at a wheat beer that we released a couple of spring/summers a few years ago: Stone Heat Seeking Wheat. While it was a plenty tasty beer, we ultimately decided that it wasn’t that reflective of what Stone was…
This year's 8th anniversary is, like all previous Stone Anniversary Ales, an adaptation of a previous Stone Brewing Co. release. This year we set out to make an "Anniversary-ized" version of Lee's Mild, a limited-release beer from 1999. For this beer we used some of the same malts that we had used in Lee's Mild, added more hops, less water (to bring the alcohol content up), and found a tasty…
Ahh, the annual hullabaloo. The time for my relentless soliloquy to banish the quotidian summer ennui, midst simultaneously imbuing a rich obfuscation upon the part of the poor reader (alas, felicitous imbiber) who must certainly promulgate a healthy gumption to attempt to forage through this precisely 7.7 point font work. No, not for the nebbish most definitely. The conundrum? What is the…
An ode to density, viscoSity, and the unbearable opaqueness of being...
Considering that we were barreling down on a beeline path in what might have seemed to be a ruinous (get it?) direction with previous Anniversaries' IPA offerings to the hop god–hops are not a real religion, but perhaps they should be? Already a large and ravenous throng is ready and willing to offer their palates up on…
It's late July as I write this. Weather's been great. Good San Diego weather–nice and hot, but not too hot. The days are like a warm burrito accented by the salsa fresca of the afternoon's cool ocean breezes. Perfect beer drinking weather (admittedly, I think ALL weather is perfect beer drinking weather). August is knocking on the door. September and our 5th Anniversary Open House is just around…
"This beer takes hops to the ridiculous" is what we wrote on the back of our 2nd Anniversary IPA. And on the 3rd Anniversary IPA bottle we wrote, "Pucker up baby, this brew packs one heckuva hop punch (and then some!)." See, in comparison to our original Stone IPA recipe, we doubled the bittering hops for the 2nd anniversary, and we tripled 'em for the 3rd. So what do we have to say for ourselves…
In 2002, we released Stone Ruination IPA, history’s first full-time brewed & bottled West Coast style double IPA (you can win a bar bet with that one!). In 2012 we celebrated with a special edition we called Stone Ruination Tenth Anniversary IPA. That monster of a beer has now become a staple of our annual release calendar under the name Stone RuinTen Triple IPA. This version that you now…
STEAL THE SHOW AT YOUR INDEPENDENCE DAY BBQ WITH THIS DUAL USE OF OUR NEWLY-CANNED STONE ENJOY BY UNFILTERED IPAYep, we went there. Well, she did anyway (on our behalf). As the days heat up and the 4th of July approaches, The Beeroness has fulfilled one of our weirder fantasies by using the first-ever canned…
It’s been four years since this otherworldly stout burst out of our collective proverbial chests. Four years since the primally viscous first release ooze-snaked across the galaxy. This specialty imperial stout draws its huge flavor from wheat (that’s Wil, natch), pecans and bourbon barrels (two homages to Drew’s home of Kentucky) and Greg’s lifelong quest for pushing the limits of “why the hell…
