Well here's a bit of a beer story. Stone's was a very traditional Sheffield based brewery which made a lovely bitter. This was very popular with the steel workers - it sold in buckets! I can remember the taste to this day - it was hoppy but sweet with a definite hint of tangerine citrus and at less than 4% it was very quaffable. And what happened - Bass Charrington bought the brewery, closed it down and started manufacturing an inferior version elsewhere. It's gone - the Stones beer of the 1970's is no more.
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| Escondido to Berlin |
Stone Brewery on the other hand, is a wonderful Californian based microbrewery that's no longer micro sized. It's been voted the 'All-time Top Brewery on Planet Earth' and we came across some rather hoppy strong IPA's on our travels in the US - very tasty! So where did we get these little tinnies from ? Why Asda of course, Stone has opened a brewery in Germany and ships it's beer around Europe - aren't we lucky?
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| Es ist ein gas! |
Here's a photo of the Stone Brewery in a converted gas works in Berlin - quite a building eh? Not sure if they've got round to brewing some of the more esoteric beers that emerge from the Escondido brewery such as Arrogant Bastard and Punk in Drubblic, but they do brew their famous 7.7 percent Ruination - not sure if Asda will get round to stocking this one yet!
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| Ruined again! |
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