Stone Brewing Small Batch Series – Holiday 2017 Releases (Video)

From Stone:

From our cellar to your holiday party, the Stone Small Batch Series beers are the perfect gift for any craft beer lover! Our brewers were so excited* about these beers they decided to wear ugly sweaters in the barrel warehouse on a 100-degree day in Escondido and have cameras pointed in their face! Read more about these beers and see the full playlist of videos at bit.ly/StoneSmallBatch * – This was 100% their idea and not at all a favor they begrudgingly granted to the social media team.

We added 3 strains of Brettanomyces yeast to our iconic Saison du BUFF, and aged it in wine barrels for almost a year before bottling. Some typical Brettanomyces fermentation characteristics are present in the beer, with some cherry and tropical fruit like flavors and aromatics. Oak notes and tannin add some body and mouthfeel to the beer. Herbal components of the beer are toned down after the extensive barrel aging. Aftertaste has a hint of the classic Brettanomyces funk that adds complexity. This a great sipping beer for lovers of wine barrel aged Saisons that can be cellared and aged for years.

Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA practically named itself. The perfect melding of dark malts with a downright indecent amount of hops forges a complex flavor profile of assertive dark roastiness and big, bright hop notes for a singularly sublime experience. CELLAR NOTES Small Batch Brewer Cecil Menasco thought it would be an ingenious experiment to age our dark and deeply hopped Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA in rye whiskey barrels…and he was right. This time our small batch crew, never a self-satisfied bunch, added bourbon barrels. The result is transcendent: perfectly balanced dark chocolate, oak, dried fruit and citrus tones. As it warms, the spicy rye and sweet bourbon barrel notes complete this masterful transformation.