The Firestone Pale 31 is a 4.8% pale ale coming out of sunny California and is brewed by Firestone Walker in Paso Robles.
The Pale 31 pours a light color with no head and is reminiscent of apple cider in appearance. The beer gives a crisp hoppy aroma. The smell is nice and simple, nothing [...]
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With Special guest Greg Silvius we tried the Stone 13th Anniversary ale which was released June 28th 2009, as an American Strong Ale weighing in at 9.5% ABV and an IBU of 90+. Stone used more hops on this beer than any other they have ever made! As with all stone beers, this is brewed [...]
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From the Rouge Brewery in Oregon we have the American Amber Ale. The beer has a light color to it and about 2 inches of head. The foam sticks to the glass nicely but overall the appearance is just average.
The American Ale gives off a floral-hoppy aroma with some hints of citrus.
The beer [...]
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Daniel and I took a trip to California to do a special focusing on Stone Brewing and a large selection of their beers. You can see the many photos from the trip on our flickr website. This was our 3rd beer of the night and we saved one of the bests for last.
Stones Sublimely Self-Righteous [...]
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We did several beers that night (this was the 5th). You can probably tell by the extra laughing and lower attention spans ;o)
Rogue makes some exceptional beers and we love our stouts. This one is 6% alcohol and is rated very high on most other sites.
The Shakespeare Stout pours a dark black with a rich [...]
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Port Brewing’s Old Viscosity from California.
The beer poured a dark rich dry brown that was pitch black. There is about 2 fingers worth of head. The head was very dark brown and may be the darkest head I have seen. When they say Old Viscosity, I think they are referring to oil… That’s exactly what [...]
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Stone Brewing’s 09.09.09 Vertical Epic Ale (part of the vertical epic series).
Each Vertical Epic beer is designed to drink sometime after 12.12.12 (end of the world?) for a “truly epic tasting”. If you had all 10 bottles, it would be an experience maybe 3 or 4 will get to try. They use very interesting ingredients [...]
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Kona Pipeline Porter From Kona Brewing
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Gordo Stout at Santan Brewery
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Stone Brewery 06.06.06 Vertical Epic Ale
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