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Two More Stone (with some help) Killers (Stone/Jolly Pumpkin/Nogne Holiday Beer & Cali-Belgique)

San Diego’s Beer Mecca status is well established.  Ask anyone who has been there or has spent more than a couple hours there, and they will tell you: “The weather is perfect” and “The Beer is amazing.”   Scientists are now trying to bottle San Diego sunshine and export it around the world, for more [...]

Epic Indeed (08 Stone Vertical Epic)

I think that I have a new rule.  Instead of trying to have just one beer a night, I’ll try to have just one good beer a night.  Not that I’ll really care if the rule gets broken, but I want some insurance, know what I’m saying?  After suffering through a bottle of swill last [...]

Hotter than Hell (Stone 12th Anniversary: Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout)

A few weeks ago Stone, a perennial favorite of mine, did a bit of market testing in New York. They brought kegs of Levitation, a session ale, to ten beer bars in the area and were looking to see if a 4.5% session beer was a viable product in this market. Most breweries [...]