We're fortunate to have so many massively talented and incredibly awesome folks who are part of Team Stone. One of those people is Small Batch Brewer Laura Ulrich. Not only is she a fantastically talented brewer, but she is also the president of Pink Boots Society, an organization that assists, inspires and encourages women beer industry professionals to advance their careers through education…
It started about ten years ago. In the Mens Room at our offices in Escondido that we’d recently moved into. It was like most office restrooms. Too bright. Sterile. Not a modicum of design. Laid out on a CAD drawing once upon a time (the offices were new to us, but definitely not new), and executed with banal efficiency. Without style. Or thought. Materials quality were the very definition…
Roamer, wanderer, nomad, vagabond. Call me what you will.
- Metallica
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.
– Heraclitus
It’s time. I’ll be leaving Stone Brewing soon, the company I co-founded and led for the better part of my adult life.
Counting the ramp-up time, I’ve dedicated almost 30 years to…
I was saddened to learn of the coming passing of an old friend. It’d been quite some time since I last saw this friend. Far too long. And the fault is all mine, though it’s not the kind of thing where any blame needs to be placed. You move away. You find that you don’t haunt the same regions any more. You find new friends.
There was no falling out. The fondness has always been there, yet…
Last week, we took to social media, asking Stone fans to tell us what time-honored holiday treats they’d like to see our test kitchen tackle in an attempt to make them better using craft beer. A wide variety of suggestions came back, some in the form of pleas. We took some of the most popular and got to work simmering, whisking and brushing a variety of brews into a pair of desserts that, when…
This holiday season we teamed up with our friend Sasha Rumage (aka "tattooed martha") to create a custom beer-based recipe suitable for any Thanksgiving or seasonal dinner spread. you can find the gluten-reduced Stone Delcious IPA…
While pairing food with beer is becoming more and more popular, there is another way to enjoy beer while getting your daily nourishment. Cooking with beer is no longer just for dads who tip their beer bottle out into a chili pot. Different beers can be incorporated into your meals (and desserts!) and it should be no surprise that we at Stone Brewing are big fans of this culinary union.…
The Anton Paar Alcolyzer is a nifty (and expensive) piece of analytical equipment that allows for the determination of alcohol by volume (ABV) in beer – among other key specifications. The Alcolyzer uses near-infrared technology (NIR) to determine how dense a liquid is. Knowing that alcohol has a certain density along with plain water, it can measure the difference between the two, giving us…
Without yeast there would be no beer. Here are two pictures from our automatic cell counter. The one on the left is a brightfield picture of our house yeast. The one on the right is our house yeast stained with a fluorescent dye called propidium iodide. The dye will bind with non-replicating DNA in yeast cells. Basically, if you see a glowing cell, it’s dead. This is how we determine how viable…
