Stone

Escondido, CA - USA

Stone Brewing was founded in 1996 in San Marcos, California, it is the largest brewery in Southern California. In 2015, it was the 10th largest craft brewery in the United States and the 15th largest brewery overall, based on sales volume. Most of Stone's beers are characteristic of West Coast craft breweries, meaning they have a high hop content.

Compared to macro-produced lagers, many Stone beers have alcohol percentages well above average. The alcohol content by volume of Stone beers varies between 4.8% and 13%.

Stone Brewing is ranked as a "World Class Brewery" by the two largest beer lover websites, RateBeer and BeerAdvocate. Beer Advocate readers voted Stone Brewing # 1 “Best Brewery of All Time on Planet Earth”.