Stone Brewing Co. Introduces the "Stone Mixed 12 Pack"

OK, if you like buying warm beer...

 

Levitation is very awesome and doesn't get enough love

 

You wouldn't save $5 just because it's warm? Seems silly.

 

I am breathing very heavy right now. A mix pack from Stone..... Oh, our distributor better be able to get us some at the store.

 

That's right, I would not buy warm Stone products. I made the mistake of buying a warm 6-pack of Jai Alai (one of my favorite IPAs) at Sam's. It was terrible. I will never buy beer there again.

 

Lame, some of that stuff is hit or miss. I bet it had more to do with the dating that the fact it was warm though. Al least with the Stone 12 packs you know they have to be relatively fresh since it was just released.

 

The Jai Alai I bought was only a month old. It tasted like shit. Temp fluctuations and extended warming ruins IPAs.

 

lol First off....You think that your Jai-Alai is refrigerated from the time it is canned all the way to the time you buy it? You. Are. Insane. It is not hard to find food distributors carrying potentially hazardous food (ie: milk, meat) in less than ideal temperature conditions. To think that beer distributors are somehow perfect enough at their job that the beer stays in temp. range the whole time is insane. Ever you ever seen how a limited release beer is distro'd? These beer distributors seem like not the most organized people I've ever encountered.

I have personally bought IPA's from the same case, one 6-pack was in the cooler for a week, one was on the shelf under no refrigeration for a week....Poured each side by side and ZERO taste difference; none, at all. Appearance and carbonation were exactly the same as well.

If you pass up every beer that is not refrigerated, good, I'll more easily be able to find the bottles I want, but you are insane for doing so and there is no reason for it other than if you are an alcoholic who drinks his beer in the parking lot and does not want it warm. Throw it in the freezer for 10 minutes when you get home and it'll be ready to drink.

I used to think like you, until I actually bought some beer on the shelf and discovered it tastes no different, and yes I am talking about IPA's, even temperemental/short shelf life ones like Sculpin.

The Binny's here has about 1/10th of their beer in coolers. They seem to sell a good amount of beer, but I guess they're just clueless, according to you?

IF beer was effected by temperature, these craft brewers that spend hundreds of hours making these beers, you do not think they would do a little something to make sure they're beer was kept cold? STONE has a beer called "Enjoy-By"; by yer hypotheses, they should soon be coming out with a beer called "Keep Refrigerated" ...right?

 

1) Comparing a brewery that brews mostly hop-forward ales to one that has a litany of top of the class sours is not the same thing. There's numerous IPAs rated as high or higher than Stone's offerings. Cantillon is in a class of it's own, and making a gueuze is far more complicated than an IPA.

2) If there were thousands of breweries in Belgium making lambics and gueuze, I'd be inclined to say they need more variety as well. But there isn't. It's a niche within a niche.

3) I've been to Cantillon, there isn't enough room or manpower to do more than what he does there.

 

The depth of your ignorance is certainly good for a laugh. Please, keep going.

 

Any updates on when the stone Mixed 12 pack will go national?

 

Not going to read all this bullshit, but understand that refrigerating IPAs (or any other beer) preserves freshness (in hop head case, read: slows hop oil deterioration).

Not telling anyone what to buy, but refrigeration *physically does something* that influences how a beer will taste. If youre old wives tale hunting, dont miss the trees for the forest; sure, temp flucs happen but refrigeration still matters.

 

Mixture/12 pack purchased for $20.99 included Stone IPA, Arrogant Bastard Ale (Not "Oaked" variety,) Stone Ruination IPA and Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA. The latter two I had never tried before, and I enjoyed them as much as the first two which I had purchased a number of times previously.

 

Smoked porter should be this pack in place of their regular IPA

 

I'd say you're in a vast minority here

 

I've been addicted to the current mixed 12 pack all summer: ipa, ruination, arrogant bastard, sublimely self righteous for $20 in denver. Can't wait for this!

 

This isn't that new. I picked one up at my local grocery store like six months ago. A tad pricey at 20 but it's better than buying two different sixers. They should replace the levitation with the smoked porter and it would be perfect, but I understand they wanted a hoppy theme.

 

its been around for quite some time up here in AK that's saying something it was worth the one time tester buy.