Stone releases ultimate holiday beers

Stone Brewing announces the release of two holiday essentials for the season of giving and indulging: Stone Xocoveza, a mocha stout inspired by Mexican Hot Chocolate makes its fan-favorite return, and Stone 12 Days of IPAs is back with a fresh lineup presented advent-calendar style.

Stone 12 Days of IPAs: This essential pack of holiday cheer features 12 individual beers. A real gift from one of the most famous IPA breweries in the world, beers range from new recipes to year-round staples and retired fan-favorites. Explore Stone’s range of IPA expressions including the West Coast style, big doubles, easy-drinking session IPAs, fruited and even gluten-reduced IPAs.

Stone’s gift of holiday hops includes:

• Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA (8.7%): Stone’s most requested archive beer of all time.
• Stone Ruination IPA (8.2%): The legendary first full-time bottled West Coast-style double IPA that helped to propel a whole movement of ruinously hoppy beers. 
• Stone Go To IPA (4.7%) and Stone Neverending Haze IPA (4%): Two low-ABV (alcohol-by-volume) favorites of years past, making their sub-5% comeback.
• Stone 27th Anniversary Lemon Shark Double IPA (9.6%): A beer mighty enough to honor 27 years of Stone’s commitment to hop exploration with a unique cast of New Zealand ingredients.

Alongside favorites:

•  Stone IPA (6.9%)
•  Stone Delicious IPA (7.7%)
•  Stone Hazy IPA (6.7%)
•  Stone Delicious Citrus IPA (7.7%)
•  Stone ///Fear.Movie.Lions Hazy Double IPA (8.5%)
•  Stone Delicious Double IPA (9.4%)
•  Stone Tangerine Express Hazy IPA (6.7%)

Stone Xocoveza: If the warmth, indulgence and festive cheer of the holidays could ever fit in a can, this is it. Stone Xocoveza is brewed with chocolate, Mostra coffee, pasilla peppers, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg. The aroma is intense – cinnamon and spice up front with lingering coffee and sweet vanilla. It is a lively blend of flavors. Sweet spices are balanced with rich and creamy chocolate. Mild roast-coffee flavor shines through and vanilla enhances the intense combination. Pasilla peppers impart a light hint of heat in the finale. With all that complexity, the beer is surprisingly bright on the palate, with just a touch of sweetness that all the decadent flavors imply. The result is intensely flavorful, harmoniously balanced and silky smooth.  

Stone Brewing Senior Manager of Brewing & Innovation Jeremy Moynier adds, “The first time you take a sip of Stone Xocoveza, it will immediately transport you to a winter day, sitting by the fire with hot cocoa and surrounded by good cheer. It’s a beer with several layers of ingredients coming together in different ways that get better and more complex as you keep drinking it.”

Stone’s holiday cheer is now available nationwide. Visit the Stone Beer Finder. And for those in a few lucky states, including California, it can be ordered online.