Stone's latest hyped announcement

[tennispl]

So AMIRITE? I'm sitting here watching X-Files with my dog, Bella (who's a pretty badass dog, she runs around barking at the thunder...not skurred...but pissed off. Must be her german ancestry, she wants to bite the thundar!), so anyway, I'm thinking about Greg and wondering about how this whole ****** thing blew up in his face. I mean, I get trying to engage zie Germans into 'Murrican Beer but when you're begging for loot from people across the whole country and the only 2 pickups are San Diego and ******' Berlin...makes it hard for the homers. And ****, Skully was hot, I wonder if sex crazed Mulder ever tapped that. And his suits had shoulderpads, ******' 90's.

Actually I loved the 90's, **** was comin' up and we didn't have nearly the ******** we have to deal with nowadays. ******' Obama and religioius radical nutjobs and all. But hell, the beer kinda sucked. Just wish I could take today's beer, my current salary and teletimewarpport back to '96. That'd be pretty cool, gas was 85cents a ******* gallon. I'd ******* drive to Portland every weekend just to get beer. Except I live in San Diego which has the best beer period. But Portland still rocks, they have water up there.

So with all these new breweries opening down here, 91 as of today, I wonder when it will become oversaturated. As is it's damn hard to keep up with everyone anymore. And shitballz, Keeping up with breweries in central Diego let alone all the new ones up in north county, it's just tough. First world problems for sure but dammit, at least the Sharia nutjobs aren't blowing up breweries. Then it'd be time to rally the troops and protect our way of life. Blow up my IPAs, well **** YOU!

Hell, I'm even drinking a Founders Breakfast Stout I brought back with me from a trip to TX. Man, TX beer needs to come a LONG way. But some other guy I was talking to on this site was telling me his homebrew club in Chicago just found out about Westy 12 and west coast style IPA. Now, I know those gomers in Vermont started making some ****** packaged ButtHeady beer and they're, like gods, or something. But ****, it's not that complicated. Hell Stone is probably isn't even in the top 20 breweries in San Diego, and yet everyone I go outside of the state people think I must go there a lot. BORING. Besides, if Greg's been drinking his own product, I have to wonder if they're brewing with leaded pipes, that guy is losing it.

His beard is getting way out of control and even a 6 month walkabout didn't seem to fix it. Maybe they're brewin' with meth. Maybe they're making meth, but he ain't no Heisenberg. Just twitchy and sounding like some business motiviation speaker, talkin' aboot "Brewing out of the Box" and whatever other BS. Sadly, like the Padres, they take more swings and misses than home runs when it comes to their overboard Collabs and Anni beers. I do like Enjoy By, damn tasty. I can leave the rest. But after being in the local craft beer scene for a decade, I did start to cut my teeth on Stone back at Mata Way. Before Chase gave up and ventured off to focus on the craft and not making $$$.

I wonder if Aliens actually exist. They probably do but figure we're going to kill ourselves anyway. Humans are pretty stupid. Not all, but 99%. I mean, ****, even if global warming is athrop-whatever it really doesn't mean jack ****. We won't be able to stop it, try changing the minds of 1B people, let alone 3B people. Stupid liberals, all they're going to do is drive the cost of everything up and it's not like my boss is paying us anymore. And what the **** is with $8 pints of beer!! It's ******' redonk. Makes me want to homebrew more. A lot more. Corny kegs used to be $15 but now are a steal if you can find them for $50. I feel bad for anyone getting into the hobby now, all that SS is getting $$. That's how life goes, but at least more people are brewin' and hopefully learnin'.

I wish my dog could drink beer without the hops killing her. She loves to stay up late with me watching Xfiles and encouraging me to have another. She loves to stay up late and she doesn't judge. What a fine critter. Too bad I can't share this with her because that would be pretty ******' awesome. Cats though, would want wine spritzers or cosmos. Don't like cats, they have poor choices in libations. I think I'm going to watch the next episode of Xfiles. This one is about voodoo, which is cool and all, but I prefer aliens. Damn that dude got buried alive. ****, I hate sitting around in bars packed with fat guys, I can't imagine being in a box and not being able to move. Like Comic Con, the one weekend of the year that the super dorks leave their homes. Although some girls do dress up like sluts, that's always pretty cool. I wonder if I could bring beer in? It'd be like a crazy party full of wild ****.

Aliens, yes/no? How do I setup a poll? With sub options about anal probing and turning cows inside out for fun. Ha, this reminds me of the movie Evolution, also with Mulder and Stiffler. I don't know why, but Juliann Moore is kinda hot.

Holy ****, I checked my old Hotmail account. I don't know why they did all this new security crap, but I can't log in like I used to. So today it worked and I have 268 emails to root through. Man this sucks. All spam...some 20 mins later. But at least I know which brewery emails I need to update. Stupid hotmail.

****, Bella's farts are bad. That bitch can clear a room. And she only poops in the back yard, she won't drop turds anywhere else. Just wish some breweries won't release their turds and just send them down the drain where they belong. I"m getting tired. Time to take a shower and make beer in the morning.

Peace out *******.

 

[Phischy1]

PS. Give me money now and I'll send you collabs with other home brewers in 2 years.

 

[sandiego67]

So AMIRITE? I'm sitting here watching X-Files with my dog, Bella (who's a pretty badass dog, she runs around barking at the thunder...not skurred...but pissed off. Must be her german ancestry, she wants to bite the thundar!), so anyway, I'm thinking about Greg and wondering about how this whole ****** thing blew up in his face. I mean, I get trying to engage zie Germans into 'Murrican Beer but when you're begging for loot from people across the whole country and the only 2 pickups are San Diego and ******' Berlin...makes it hard for the homers. And ****, Skully was hot, I wonder if sex crazed Mulder ever tapped that. And his suits had shoulderpads, ******' 90's.

Actually I loved the 90's, **** was comin' up and we didn't have nearly the ******** we have to deal with nowadays. ******' Obama and religioius radical nutjobs and all. But hell, the beer kinda sucked. Just wish I could take today's beer, my current salary and teletimewarpport back to '96. That'd be pretty cool, gas was 85cents a ******* gallon. I'd ******* drive to Portland every weekend just to get beer. Except I live in San Diego which has the best beer period. But Portland still rocks, they have water up there.

So with all these new breweries opening down here, 91 as of today, I wonder when it will become oversaturated. As is it's damn hard to keep up with everyone anymore. And shitballz, Keeping up with breweries in central Diego let alone all the new ones up in north county, it's just tough. First world problems for sure but dammit, at least the Sharia nutjobs aren't blowing up breweries. Then it'd be time to rally the troops and protect our way of life. Blow up my IPAs, well **** YOU!

Hell, I'm even drinking a Founders Breakfast Stout I brought back with me from a trip to TX. Man, TX beer needs to come a LONG way. But some other guy I was talking to on this site was telling me his homebrew club in Chicago just found out about Westy 12 and west coast style IPA. Now, I know those gomers in Vermont started making some ****** packaged ButtHeady beer and they're, like gods, or something. But ****, it's not that complicated. Hell Stone is probably isn't even in the top 20 breweries in San Diego, and yet everyone I go outside of the state people think I must go there a lot. BORING. Besides, if Greg's been drinking his own product, I have to wonder if they're brewing with leaded pipes, that guy is losing it.

His beard is getting way out of control and even a 6 month walkabout didn't seem to fix it. Maybe they're brewin' with meth. Maybe they're making meth, but he ain't no Heisenberg. Just twitchy and sounding like some business motiviation speaker, talkin' aboot "Brewing out of the Box" and whatever other BS. Sadly, like the Padres, they take more swings and misses than home runs when it comes to their overboard Collabs and Anni beers. I do like Enjoy By, damn tasty. I can leave the rest. But after being in the local craft beer scene for a decade, I did start to cut my teeth on Stone back at Mata Way. Before Chase gave up and ventured off to focus on the craft and not making $$$.

I wonder if Aliens actually exist. They probably do but figure we're going to kill ourselves anyway. Humans are pretty stupid. Not all, but 99%. I mean, ****, even if global warming is athrop-whatever it really doesn't mean jack ****. We won't be able to stop it, try changing the minds of 1B people, let alone 3B people. Stupid liberals, all they're going to do is drive the cost of everything up and it's not like my boss is paying us anymore. And what the **** is with $8 pints of beer!! It's ******' redonk. Makes me want to homebrew more. A lot more. Corny kegs used to be $15 but now are a steal if you can find them for $50. I feel bad for anyone getting into the hobby now, all that SS is getting $$. That's how life goes, but at least more people are brewin' and hopefully learnin'.

I wish my dog could drink beer without the hops killing her. She loves to stay up late with me watching Xfiles and encouraging me to have another. She loves to stay up late and she doesn't judge. What a fine critter. Too bad I can't share this with her because that would be pretty ******' awesome. Cats though, would want wine spritzers or cosmos. Don't like cats, they have poor choices in libations. I think I'm going to watch the next episode of Xfiles. This one is about voodoo, which is cool and all, but I prefer aliens. Damn that dude got buried alive. ****, I hate sitting around in bars packed with fat guys, I can't imagine being in a box and not being able to move. Like Comic Con, the one weekend of the year that the super dorks leave their homes. Although some girls do dress up like sluts, that's always pretty cool. I wonder if I could bring beer in? It'd be like a crazy party full of wild ****.

Aliens, yes/no? How do I setup a poll? With sub options about anal probing and turning cows inside out for fun. Ha, this reminds me of the movie Evolution, also with Mulder and Stiffler. I don't know why, but Juliann Moore is kinda hot.

Holy ****, I checked my old Hotmail account. I don't know why they did all this new security crap, but I can't log in like I used to. So today it worked and I have 268 emails to root through. Man this sucks. All spam...some 20 mins later. But at least I know which brewery emails I need to update. Stupid hotmail.

****, Bella's farts are bad. That bitch can clear a room. And she only poops in the back yard, she won't drop turds anywhere else. Just wish some breweries won't release their turds and just send them down the drain where they belong. I"m getting tired. Time to take a shower and make beer in the morning.

Peace out *******.

 

[sandiego67]

 

[drbenzo1]

So AMIRITE? I'm sitting here watching X-Files with my dog, Bella (who's a pretty badass dog, she runs around barking at the thunder...not skurred...but pissed off. Must be her german ancestry, she wants to bite the thundar!), so anyway, I'm thinking about Greg and wondering about how this whole ****** thing blew up in his face. I mean, I get trying to engage zie Germans into 'Murrican Beer but when you're begging for loot from people across the whole country and the only 2 pickups are San Diego and ******' Berlin...makes it hard for the homers. And ****, Skully was hot, I wonder if sex crazed Mulder ever tapped that. And his suits had shoulderpads, ******' 90's.

Actually I loved the 90's, **** was comin' up and we didn't have nearly the ******** we have to deal with nowadays. ******' Obama and religioius radical nutjobs and all. But hell, the beer kinda sucked. Just wish I could take today's beer, my current salary and teletimewarpport back to '96. That'd be pretty cool, gas was 85cents a ******* gallon. I'd ******* drive to Portland every weekend just to get beer. Except I live in San Diego which has the best beer period. But Portland still rocks, they have water up there.

So with all these new breweries opening down here, 91 as of today, I wonder when it will become oversaturated. As is it's damn hard to keep up with everyone anymore. And shitballz, Keeping up with breweries in central Diego let alone all the new ones up in north county, it's just tough. First world problems for sure but dammit, at least the Sharia nutjobs aren't blowing up breweries. Then it'd be time to rally the troops and protect our way of life. Blow up my IPAs, well **** YOU!

Hell, I'm even drinking a Founders Breakfast Stout I brought back with me from a trip to TX. Man, TX beer needs to come a LONG way. But some other guy I was talking to on this site was telling me his homebrew club in Chicago just found out about Westy 12 and west coast style IPA. Now, I know those gomers in Vermont started making some ****** packaged ButtHeady beer and they're, like gods, or something. But ****, it's not that complicated. Hell Stone is probably isn't even in the top 20 breweries in San Diego, and yet everyone I go outside of the state people think I must go there a lot. BORING. Besides, if Greg's been drinking his own product, I have to wonder if they're brewing with leaded pipes, that guy is losing it.

His beard is getting way out of control and even a 6 month walkabout didn't seem to fix it. Maybe they're brewin' with meth. Maybe they're making meth, but he ain't no Heisenberg. Just twitchy and sounding like some business motiviation speaker, talkin' aboot "Brewing out of the Box" and whatever other BS. Sadly, like the Padres, they take more swings and misses than home runs when it comes to their overboard Collabs and Anni beers. I do like Enjoy By, damn tasty. I can leave the rest. But after being in the local craft beer scene for a decade, I did start to cut my teeth on Stone back at Mata Way. Before Chase gave up and ventured off to focus on the craft and not making $$$.

I wonder if Aliens actually exist. They probably do but figure we're going to kill ourselves anyway. Humans are pretty stupid. Not all, but 99%. I mean, ****, even if global warming is athrop-whatever it really doesn't mean jack ****. We won't be able to stop it, try changing the minds of 1B people, let alone 3B people. Stupid liberals, all they're going to do is drive the cost of everything up and it's not like my boss is paying us anymore. And what the **** is with $8 pints of beer!! It's ******' redonk. Makes me want to homebrew more. A lot more. Corny kegs used to be $15 but now are a steal if you can find them for $50. I feel bad for anyone getting into the hobby now, all that SS is getting $$. That's how life goes, but at least more people are brewin' and hopefully learnin'.

I wish my dog could drink beer without the hops killing her. She loves to stay up late with me watching Xfiles and encouraging me to have another. She loves to stay up late and she doesn't judge. What a fine critter. Too bad I can't share this with her because that would be pretty ******' awesome. Cats though, would want wine spritzers or cosmos. Don't like cats, they have poor choices in libations. I think I'm going to watch the next episode of Xfiles. This one is about voodoo, which is cool and all, but I prefer aliens. Damn that dude got buried alive. ****, I hate sitting around in bars packed with fat guys, I can't imagine being in a box and not being able to move. Like Comic Con, the one weekend of the year that the super dorks leave their homes. Although some girls do dress up like sluts, that's always pretty cool. I wonder if I could bring beer in? It'd be like a crazy party full of wild ****.

Aliens, yes/no? How do I setup a poll? With sub options about anal probing and turning cows inside out for fun. Ha, this reminds me of the movie Evolution, also with Mulder and Stiffler. I don't know why, but Juliann Moore is kinda hot.

Holy ****, I checked my old Hotmail account. I don't know why they did all this new security crap, but I can't log in like I used to. So today it worked and I have 268 emails to root through. Man this sucks. All spam...some 20 mins later. But at least I know which brewery emails I need to update. Stupid hotmail.

****, Bella's farts are bad. That bitch can clear a room. And she only poops in the back yard, she won't drop turds anywhere else. Just wish some breweries won't release their turds and just send them down the drain where they belong. I"m getting tired. Time to take a shower and make beer in the morning.

Peace out *******.

 

[sandiego67]

Stone is going to save Germany from this,

and replace it with this:

 

[Phischy1]

Stone is going to save Germany from this,

and replace it with this:

you keep getting it wrong:

God save the Fatherland.

 

[grandmeaulnes]

look you cant just post an image of the failstroms willy nilly

trying to enjoy my coffee and relax here

 

[GhettoFabulous]

So AMIRITE? I'm sitting here watching X-Files with my dog, Bella (who's a pretty badass dog, she runs around barking at the thunder...not skurred...but pissed off. Must be her german ancestry, she wants to bite the thundar!), so anyway, I'm thinking about Greg and wondering about how this whole ****** thing blew up in his face. I mean, I get trying to engage zie Germans into 'Murrican Beer but when you're begging for loot from people across the whole country and the only 2 pickups are San Diego and ******' Berlin...makes it hard for the homers. And ****, Skully was hot, I wonder if sex crazed Mulder ever tapped that. And his suits had shoulderpads, ******' 90's.

Actually I loved the 90's, **** was comin' up and we didn't have nearly the ******** we have to deal with nowadays. ******' Obama and religioius radical nutjobs and all. But hell, the beer kinda sucked. Just wish I could take today's beer, my current salary and teletimewarpport back to '96. That'd be pretty cool, gas was 85cents a ******* gallon. I'd ******* drive to Portland every weekend just to get beer. Except I live in San Diego which has the best beer period. But Portland still rocks, they have water up there.

So with all these new breweries opening down here, 91 as of today, I wonder when it will become oversaturated. As is it's damn hard to keep up with everyone anymore. And shitballz, Keeping up with breweries in central Diego let alone all the new ones up in north county, it's just tough. First world problems for sure but dammit, at least the Sharia nutjobs aren't blowing up breweries. Then it'd be time to rally the troops and protect our way of life. Blow up my IPAs, well **** YOU!

Hell, I'm even drinking a Founders Breakfast Stout I brought back with me from a trip to TX. Man, TX beer needs to come a LONG way. But some other guy I was talking to on this site was telling me his homebrew club in Chicago just found out about Westy 12 and west coast style IPA. Now, I know those gomers in Vermont started making some ****** packaged ButtHeady beer and they're, like gods, or something. But ****, it's not that complicated. Hell Stone is probably isn't even in the top 20 breweries in San Diego, and yet everyone I go outside of the state people think I must go there a lot. BORING. Besides, if Greg's been drinking his own product, I have to wonder if they're brewing with leaded pipes, that guy is losing it.

His beard is getting way out of control and even a 6 month walkabout didn't seem to fix it. Maybe they're brewin' with meth. Maybe they're making meth, but he ain't no Heisenberg. Just twitchy and sounding like some business motiviation speaker, talkin' aboot "Brewing out of the Box" and whatever other BS. Sadly, like the Padres, they take more swings and misses than home runs when it comes to their overboard Collabs and Anni beers. I do like Enjoy By, damn tasty. I can leave the rest. But after being in the local craft beer scene for a decade, I did start to cut my teeth on Stone back at Mata Way. Before Chase gave up and ventured off to focus on the craft and not making $$$.

I wonder if Aliens actually exist. They probably do but figure we're going to kill ourselves anyway. Humans are pretty stupid. Not all, but 99%. I mean, ****, even if global warming is athrop-whatever it really doesn't mean jack ****. We won't be able to stop it, try changing the minds of 1B people, let alone 3B people. Stupid liberals, all they're going to do is drive the cost of everything up and it's not like my boss is paying us anymore. And what the **** is with $8 pints of beer!! It's ******' redonk. Makes me want to homebrew more. A lot more. Corny kegs used to be $15 but now are a steal if you can find them for $50. I feel bad for anyone getting into the hobby now, all that SS is getting $$. That's how life goes, but at least more people are brewin' and hopefully learnin'.

I wish my dog could drink beer without the hops killing her. She loves to stay up late with me watching Xfiles and encouraging me to have another. She loves to stay up late and she doesn't judge. What a fine critter. Too bad I can't share this with her because that would be pretty ******' awesome. Cats though, would want wine spritzers or cosmos. Don't like cats, they have poor choices in libations. I think I'm going to watch the next episode of Xfiles. This one is about voodoo, which is cool and all, but I prefer aliens. Damn that dude got buried alive. ****, I hate sitting around in bars packed with fat guys, I can't imagine being in a box and not being able to move. Like Comic Con, the one weekend of the year that the super dorks leave their homes. Although some girls do dress up like sluts, that's always pretty cool. I wonder if I could bring beer in? It'd be like a crazy party full of wild ****.

Aliens, yes/no? How do I setup a poll? With sub options about anal probing and turning cows inside out for fun. Ha, this reminds me of the movie Evolution, also with Mulder and Stiffler. I don't know why, but Juliann Moore is kinda hot.

Holy ****, I checked my old Hotmail account. I don't know why they did all this new security crap, but I can't log in like I used to. So today it worked and I have 268 emails to root through. Man this sucks. All spam...some 20 mins later. But at least I know which brewery emails I need to update. Stupid hotmail.

****, Bella's farts are bad. That bitch can clear a room. And she only poops in the back yard, she won't drop turds anywhere else. Just wish some breweries won't release their turds and just send them down the drain where they belong. I"m getting tired. Time to take a shower and make beer in the morning.

Peace out *******.

If you weren't on cocaine when you wrote this, you are a unique and special sort of talent.

 

[Phischy1]

look you cant just post an image of the failstroms willy nilly

trying to enjoy my coffee and relax here

Some images may be found disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.

 

[ABSTRACTlegend]

Greg Koch Responds to Stone’s Crowd Sourcing Criticism
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articl...tones-greg-koch-responds-to-stones-crowd.html

 

[bathroomlaughter]

Paste: Is it a problem, though, that backers don’t have any traditional ownership? That they don’t own a percentage of the company? Once you give them a collaboration bottle or a tee shirt, that’s the end of the transaction.

GK: It’s actually not though, because when they come and pick up their bottles they’re getting a pretty insane perk, and being treated like a member of Team Stone for a day

 

[bathroomlaughter]

insane perk: getting to pick up something you paid for

 

[drbenzo1]

I bought the stone Alesmith perk

 

[tennispl]

insane perk: getting to pick up something you paid for

Although I'm not advocating what they are doing, that's not the perk he is describing when you go to pick up the bottle you ordered. He is talking about the discount in the bistro and the shop that you get that day. Just for clarification.

 

[lb304854]

Although I'm not advocating what they are doing, that's not the perk he is describing when you go to pick up the bottle you ordered. He is talking about the discount in the bistro and the shop that you get that day. Just for clarification.

How is the Team Stone medical/dental even for a day?

 

[arren]

What medical/dental?

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Stone-Brewing-Reviews-E15595.htm

 

[lb304854]

What medical/dental?

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Stone-Brewing-Reviews-E15595.htm

"So you want to be a ****** brewer?!?"

 

[drgarage1]

So the next collab is with Lost Abbey. I bet that will be a non-trainwreck.

"Wow, this is good stuff, and to be honest, once you do the math, you’ll see you’d kinda be nuts to pass it up. Or a fizzy yellow beer drinker."

Sick burn, Greg.

 

[LukeAleTime]

So the next collab is with Lost Abbey. I bet that will be a non-trainwreck.

"Wow, this is good stuff, and to be honest, once you do the math, you’ll see you’d kinda be nuts to pass it up. Or a fizzy yellow beer drinker."

Sick burn, Greg.

Wait, where did he say that?

 

[drgarage1]

Wait, where did he say that?

It's in the list underneath the video announcing the Lost Abbey collaboration. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/...ions-the-campaign-for-cross-planetary-brewing

Good to see he's keeping it 1996 all the time.

 

[LukeAleTime]

It's in the list underneath the video announcing the Lost Abbey collaboration. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/...ions-the-campaign-for-cross-planetary-brewing

Good to see he's keeping it 1996 all the time.

Geez he's a ******.

 

[jmgrub]

Geez he's a ******.

Nah bro he was off the grid for a few months that was cool and **** right?

 

[LukeAleTime]

Nah bro he was off the grid for a few months that was cool and **** right?

Off the grid, standing on bars in Australia and NZ giving speeches.

Way off the grid bro.

 

[Phischy1]

I'm drinking Unapologetic. Bought it solely for the Beechwood collaborator. Stone didn't screw this up, great beer.

Now WHY WHY WHY can't they all be like this?!

 

[mrk_d]

"Recently, Stone Co-founder Greg Koch kicked off a speech on our upcoming#Berlin brewery by disposing of some macro-lagers from countries spanning the globe in a most unique way. Cheers to #craftbeer...and forklifts!"

Stone might be the best troll in the game right now.

 

[pjl44]

"Recently, Stone Co-founder Greg Koch kicked off a speech on our upcoming#Berlin brewery by disposing of some macro-lagers from countries spanning the globe in a most unique way. Cheers to #craftbeer...and forklifts!"

Stone might be the best troll in the game right now.

I wonder if there is a depressing 15 minute video of the poor schleps who have to clean up after he's made his tired point.

 

[FBIinformant]

Finally Greg is going to make Germany that beer capital it deserves to be.

What did those poor fools drink before? That fizzy yellow stuff?!

 

[Phischy1]

"Recently, Stone Co-founder Greg Koch kicked off a speech on our upcoming#Berlin brewery by disposing of some macro-lagers from countries spanning the globe in a most unique way. Cheers to #craftbeer...and forklifts!"

Stone might be the best troll in the game right now.

Tens of people showed up.

 

[Phischy1]

AMIRTE 2x?

I think about beer a lot. More than is healthy because I love the ****. And via loving the **** I met a bunch of really kick ass people. Selfservebrewer, Baconfatty, IIPAbrewer and a host of others. Through this convoluted trail of good people, good beer, and a fuckton of homebrewing a bunch of us ended up working GABF as stewards. Which is a lot of work, and it can kinda suck, but theres a fuckton of beer that you won't see anywhere else. Ever...in one place. Multiple years of doing this and I met my wife 3 years ago at Falling Rock. So beer is an integral part of my life.

So there we go. Phischy in a nutshell. I love me some beer including all the ******* ******** that goes along with brewing it.

Throughout this whole thing there's Stone. Way back in '02 or '03 when I first started the trek upto Mata Way Stone was THE ****. The **** You, we're making good beer and we don't give a damn about anything else. Then a flip was switched and instead of making the best ******* beer...they went into growth mode. Now Stone is up there with the big craft boys like Deschuttes or New Belgium. Where nearly zero ***** are given about 96% of the beer they make. Why? Because it was dumbed down from their craft roots. Lots of 'meh speciality beer being made but it's really not all that great. As opposed to Firestone Walker who has a very infrequent miss. Green Flash isn't what it used to be and even Lagunitas isn't high on my hit list.

It's not just a Stone thing. But I live here and Stone is the big craft brewery so they're in the news a lot and they've fallen in 10yrs from top 5 to top 20 ( near the end ). While I'm hacking this out I'm watching Universal Soldier IV, or VI, beats me. Dof Lugren is back in and he looks damn near 80 yet still doing enough roids that his head looks transplanted. And this dude has a pHD in Chemical Engineering? ******' Roidin' Heisenberg!

You have to ask yourself...what happens when you are a fantastic brewery with a 10 or 15bbl brewhouse and you get popular....cranking out kickass suds and to make more you go Big with a 50 or 100bbl system.....and you lose a step. Is it akin to being an NFL running back? Suddenly you wake up and the next season you simply can't juke or make that cut and you're getting creamed for a 5yrd loss in the backfield? Are you the ******* BEST! Then you make it to the Superbowl and the seahawks crush the bronco's (oooh....tits in this movie....and not fakey silicon chest balloons) like a popwarner team? Because that **** was hilarious to watch. Unless you're my wife....then it kinda sucked.

I just hit the wall. Goodnight.