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Randy Clemens
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Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine & Stone Old Guardian BELGO Barley Wine hitting store
shelves on February 14
The über malty, super hoppy mega beer that you know and love is back. We've been making it for a while now… gosh, since 1998, and we love it, just as we love all of our liquid children. But you know kids; as they get older, they start to rebel. They want to start thinking for themselves and challenging authority. Defying the rules. Talking back.
It's a trying time for any parent, but at some point you have to loosen the reins a bit and let them experiment. Yes, the recipe has always varied a bit from year to year, but this time, it was a much bigger change. And so was born the "Odd Beers for Odd Years" program. The thought being that in odd years – odd as in not even (2011, 2013, 2015…) – we would release odd beers – odd as in different takes on our special releases.
Enter Stone Old Guardian BELGO Barley Wine. It's our classic Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine, but tweaked with our Belgian yeast strain. We'd originally planned on only releasing the BELGO-ized version, but due to a slew of vituperative emails popular demand, we decided to concede a little… by making both. You're welcome.

 

Mitch Steele    TASTING NOTES FROM HEAD BREWER MITCH STEELE
Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine
"This year's release has a nice amber color and tan head of foam. It opens up with an aroma of bready yeast esters. The taste is rich with toffee and caramel malt flavors, rounded out by herbal hop notes with some nice lingering bitterness."

12% ABV, 85 IBUs 		  Stone Old Guardian BELGO Barley Wine
"The Belgian yeast takes this beer into a totally new direction. The yeast esters dominate the flavor, with the malt character present in the background, providing ample fullness and balance. Hop flavors, while muted slightly up front, end strong on the finish."

12% ABV, 85 IBUs

QUOTES

"A dizzying, in your face US style barley wine. Be careful!"
- World Beer Championships (Gold Medal winner)

"Stone is a brewery known for its big, ass-kicking beers. So it's saying something that Old Guardian Barley Wine is one of itsbiggest, most ass-kicking."
– Esquire.com

PDFs, LOGOS & PHOTOS

Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine
22oz Bottle
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Stone Old Guardian BELGO Barley Wine
22oz Bottle
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Steve Wagner, President & Brewmaster
Greg Koch, CEO & Co-Founder
Mitch Steele, Head Brewer
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Stone Circle Gargoyle Logo
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Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine 		AVAILABILITY
22oz bottles & draft

STONE OLD GUARDIAN BARLEY WINE DISTRIBUTION

Arizona
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California
 Maine Oregon
Colorado
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Connecticut Massachusetts Rhode Island
Delaware Michigan Tennessee
Florida Montana Texas
Georgia Nevada Vermont
Idaho New Jersey Virginia
Illinois New Mexico Washington
Indiana New York  
Kentucky North Carolina  

Stone's National Distribution Page

WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING ABOUT STONE

"All-Time Top Brewery on Planet Earth. The most popular and highest-rated brewery...ever."
- BeerAdvocate Magazine		 "Not for the faint of heart, [Stone's] bold brews have a strong and fast-growing fan base"
- Bon Appetit Magazine
"Stone Brewing Company from San Diego is arguably the most notorious player on America's exhilarating craft brewing scene."
- The Publican (United Kingdom) 		"Stone Brewing makes aggressive beer - good news for those tired of the fizzy yellow stuff."
- Los Angeles Times
"Stone Brewing's 'extreme' beers are like standard ales in overdrive."
- Food & Wine 		"[Stone] has no interest in going mainstream if that means watering down the product."
- Inc. Magazine
"San Diego [is] the new beer capital of the U.S. Stone exemplifies the local approach, with aggressively hopped but completely drinkable brews."
- Men's Journal 		"[Stone] is one of the best-known West Coast brewers with one of the most devoted cult followings this side of The Grateful Dead."
- Beverage World Magazine