Stone Brewing history

Since 1999, the company has also operated its own distribution arm called Stone Distributing Company which services Southern California and represents more than 40 craft beer, cider and kombucha brands.

Then, when Y2K came around (sans anarchy and apocalypse), the 2000 batch of Old Guardian took a silver medal out of a pool of sixty-five barleywine entries at the Great American Beer Festival.

500 list for the first time in 2002! Since then we’ve been on either the Inc.

However, one of the more memorable things the man-behind-the-gargoyle has pitched, thrown or tossed was the “first pitch” at a San Diego Padres game back in 2006 at the then-new Petco Park.

Stone Levitation Ale went on to win a gold medal at the 2007 Great American Beer Festival, but popularity of this beer waned over the years.

In June 2008, Stone Brewing covered the roof of the brewery with solar panels, cutting their energy costs nearly in half.

In 2013 the company opened a packaging hall just south of the brewery which houses the bottling and keg lines.

In Summer 2014, the company announced plans to open Stone Brewing Berlin in the German capital.

The brewery in Escondido produced 325,645 US beer barrels in 2015.

The brewery held the opening of the Stone Company Store Richmond in March 2016 and began brewing, kegging and bottling Stone IPA in July 2016.

On February 12, 2018, Stone filed a lawsuit against MillerCoors, the makers of Keystone beer, alleging that they were attempting to co-opt their name after a brand revamp that emphasizes the word "Stone" on the sides of their products.

In April 2019 the entire Stone Brewing - Berlin operation was sold to Scotland-based BrewDog.

What’s more, this beer was the first beer brewed in the 2020 Stone Pilot Series Program, a trio of special releases on trial for placement in Stone’s full-time lineup of beers.