Hello from Stone Brewing Berlin

Hey folks! It's been quite some time (years maybe?) since I've posted on the Germany forum, so as I'm enjoying my coffee and a lazy Saturday morning at my flat in Berlin, I thought I'd take a moment to say "Hello!"

Loving the growing craft beer scene here in Berlin, and looking forward to being a part of it!

As you may know, the first ever Berlin Beer Week is coming up in June, and we're hosting the official "Closing Festival" at our not-yet-open facility here. We're shipping beer over from the US just for the event from 16 highly respected American craft brewers specifically for the event, as well as having an amazing selection of Berlin craft brewers in attendance...and some of our friends from Italy, Slovenia and elsewhere too. Not wanting to get all promotional here, but hey, 100% of the proceeds from the fest goes to local charities so I hope you don't mind if I plug a little.

Anyway, been a BA member for...about forever...and I look forward to getting to know some BAers here in Germany over time.

Cheers! -Greg.

 

Oh, I suppose this might be helpful... https://www.facebook.com/events/508103276003357/

 

Don't know...but I do know that I enjoyed the hell out of the Spent Collective Pilsz I had earlier today!

 

Honestly, I didn't notice that it had any Munich malt. Interesting. It certainly wasn't a dominating character.

Lots of cool and interesting beers being brewed in Berlin! I can not wait until we join them!

 

Research on Berlin and the beers being brewed here? LOL! I'm glad to say that I personally know a great deal (most?) of the brewers in town, and have enjoyed their beers on many multiple occasions over the last five years that I've been coming here. That being said, I definitely am going to reserve the right to go out and have a beer with friends (as I was doing yesterday), and not analyze it or research it, but just enjoy it. ;-]-=

I'm not sure at this point exactly what our prices will be, but we'll have a deep selection of our beers, Berlin craft beers, German, European, American, and other international craft & specialty beers. Prices will be determined by size of pour, and the cost of the beer.

No, we don't plan on brewing any traditional German styles as there are plenty of existing breweries in Germany that do a damn fine job at that (m-a-y-b-e with the possible exception of a BerlinerWeisse perhaps, as there aren't enough breweries currently brewing authentic versions). We're going to focus on the types of beers that best represent our company and brewing style: Stone beers!

 

Look for brewing in early 2016 and the bistro in Springtime. http://berlin.stonebrewing.com/

 

I imagine that might mean something different to everyone. To me, it means a brewer that makes industrialized lowest common denominator versions...sorta like as Muzak is to Dizzy Gillespie or Beethoven. It's similar-ish, but different. Way different. It's the version not intended to be 'great' but instead the version made to 'sell volumes.' Whatever. You could slice it a hundred ways I imagine.

Much more importantly, what does "industrial beer" mean to you?

And cheers to that healthy marketing budget of ours! I'm posting on BA on a Sunday...or is it a crack marketing team that's pretending to be me?

Hey, we got a Facebook page, a twitter account (I used to do one myself, but decided to quite...had work to do), and even got an Instagram account. Oh, and some coasters too (I think you may call them 'beer mats'). Impressive!