Stone Brewing Co.
Brewery headquartered in Escondido, California, USA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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33.1157°N 117.1199°W / 33.1157; -117.1199
Location | Escondido, California |
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Opened | 1996; 28 years ago (1996) |
Key people | Maria Stipp (Chief Executive Officer)[1] Greg Koch (Executive Chairman)[2] Steve Wagner (President)[2] |
Annual production volume | 325,645 US beer barrels (382,137 hL) (2015)[3] |
Employees | 1,100[4] |
Website | stonebrewing |
Stone Brewing (formerly Stone Brewing Co.) is a brewery headquartered in Escondido, California, USA. Founded in 1996 in San Marcos, California,[3] it is the largest brewery in Southern California.[5] Based on 2020 sales volume it is the ninth largest craft brewery in the United States.[6]
The brewery's first beer was Stone Pale Ale,[7] which was considered to be its flagship ale[8] until it was retired in 2015.[9] The company's best known brand is Arrogant Bastard Ale, which has been described as a "watershed beer" that "put San Diego on the craft brew map."[10] Most of Stone's beers are characteristic of west-coast craft brews, meaning that they have a high hop content. Compared to the macro-produced lagers, many Stone brews feature alcohol percentages that are well above average, ranging from 4.8% to 13%.[11]
Stone Brewing is rated as a "world class brewery" by the two largest beer enthusiast websites, RateBeer and BeerAdvocate.[12][13] Stone Brewing has been voted by the readers of Beer Advocate as the #1 "All Time Top Brewery on Planet Earth."[14]
In June 2022, Stone and Sapporo Breweries announced that they had reached an agreement for Sapporo to purchase Stone Brewing, with the purchase expected to close in August 2022.