Stone Breaks Ground For Packaging Hall & Buries Keg-Time Capsule

To further mark this momentous occasion, we created a time capsule out of an old keg that we placed underground where the Stone Packaging Hall will stand. (We’re projecting that construction will be complete by year’s end, with equipment up and running inside by early 2013.) We placed a bunch of Stone merch in it, a few bottles of beer (including the Stone 16th Anniversary IPA, naturally), a copy of our book, and a proclamation signed by all those in attendance, which reads:

“I WAS THERE, MAAAANNNN…”

On this, the second day of August in the year two thousand and twelve, I proudly bore witness to the groundbreaking ceremony which officially began the construction of Stone Brewing Co.’s new packaging hall at 1999 Citracado Parkway in Escondido,California.

Stone’s monumental year-to-year growth has caused them to outgrow their existing 55,000 sq. ft. brewing space. In order to form a more perfect Union, creating this additional 59,815 sq. ft. facility is the first step of many necessary to continue allowing Stone’s incredible beers to flow like water, quenching the seemingly insatiable thirst of responsible adults everywhere.

This noble document, emblazoned with my signature to commemorate my attendance, shall be forever contained within a time capsule buried deep under the glorious complex that will soon stand on the dirt lot where we’ve assembled together today. May the future civilization that unearths it get a small chuckle out of our hubris, and perhaps even offer up a toast in our honor with a heavily hopped beer. (There are hops in the future… RIGHT?!?!)