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SAVOR 2014 Brewery Profile: Stone Brewing Company (@stonebrewingco)

By DCBeer contributor Sean Dalton

Name: Stone Brewing Co.

Location: Escondido, CA

Website: http://www.stonebrew.com/

Type: Production brewery

Available in DC Market: Yes (DC, MD, and VA)

What You Need to Know: Founded in 1996, Stone has become the craft beer industry’s banner carrier for unapologetically hopped-up West Coast beers. The marketing of such understatedly named beers as Arrogant Bastard and Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale seem to be a direct reflection of the credo of the company’s ubiquitous CEO, Greg Koch: “Fizzy Yellow Beer is for wussies.” You may have seen even more of the Stone Gargoyle mascot leering at you from bottle shop shelves over the past year, however, as its wildly popular Enjoy By series of hoppy ales exhorted craft beer drinkers to consume their contents by dates certain. . . or be damned. Indeed, is it any coincidence that when one of the characters in 2002’s horror film “Cabin Fever” abandons his friends to their grisly fate, he flees with a couple of sixer

Source: DC Beer.

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