Released nationwide Feb. 24th "If you're one of the millions of souls currently buried under snow and ice, this news ought to warm you up. Starting early next week, you'll be able to get your mittens on a bottle (or two, or twelve; you might want to stock up in case winter lasts even longer) of 2014 Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine. Starting right now, you can check out the stats on this year's hefty, Stone-ified version of the traditional beer style ahead of the pack (the newsletter-less masses won't get to see this until Monday) on the official page, and start plotting the shortest route to your local bottle shop. We tweaked this year's recipe ever so slightly, and the results are simply spectacular, if we do say so ourselves." "We make small adjustments to the recipe every year, just a little bit, as it provides an opportunity to try some different hops or malts. This year, the changes were minor; we used Nugget instead of Magnum for the bittering hop, and we replaced the CTZ hops in the whirlpool with Cascade to give the beer a pinier, more citrusy note. It's a well-rounded, complex beer that is ready to drink now, or can be aged at cellar temperature for many years."
interesting changes. prefer CTZ to cascade, but really old guardian is about big malt + bitter as hell.
