{"id":5344,"date":"2012-06-14T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=5344"},"modified":"2012-06-14T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:26:50","slug":"stone-company-store-south-park-year-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2012\/06\/14\/stone-company-store-south-park-year-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Company Store South Park, Year 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/54E64399-5857-4EC5-8E34-4C9855B527E6.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5345\" title=\"54E64399-5857-4EC5-8E34-4C9855B527E6\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/54E64399-5857-4EC5-8E34-4C9855B527E6.png?resize=194%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/54E64399-5857-4EC5-8E34-4C9855B527E6.png?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/54E64399-5857-4EC5-8E34-4C9855B527E6.png?resize=662%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 662w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/54E64399-5857-4EC5-8E34-4C9855B527E6.png?w=792&amp;ssl=1 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>The first expansion outside the Escondido location of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonebrew.com\/home.asp\">Stone Brewing Co.<\/a> empire, the Stone Company Store South Park, is turning 1 this Friday, June 15<sup>th<\/sup>. According to Stone Media Lynchpin (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonebrew.com\/staff\/media.asp\" target=\"_blank\">actual title<\/a>) Randy Clemens, \u201c<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">To celebrate, they&#8217;re putting some killer beers on tap, and sending some goodies out to surrounding bars, restaurants, and bottle shops on Friday, June 15<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Goodies indeed, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazaratrattoria.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mazarra Trattora<\/a> (my favorite bottle shop in South Park) is going to have the venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com\/beer\/jason-fields-kevin-sheppard--troegs--stone-cherry-chocolate-stout\/150018\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cherry Chocolate Stout<\/a>\u00a0in bottles this Friday. Check out the poster to the right for the breakdown of the beer distribution for tomorrow \u2013 essentially they&#8217;re dropping great beer on all of their restaurant, bar, and bottleshop accounts in the area. At 6PM, Greg Koch (and his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/StoneGreg\/media\/slideshow?url=http%3A%2F%2Flockerz.com%2Fs%2F213163517\" target=\"_blank\">epic beard<\/a>) will be at the Store to tap a \u201csurprise\u201d keg.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">While always in the shadow of its trendier, cooler brother <a href=\"http:\/\/30thstreet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Park<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/southparkscene.com\/whats_happening.html\" target=\"_blank\">South Park<\/a> is one of the finest neighborhoods in town. It&#8217;s coming alive this weekend with Stone&#8217;s celebration on Friday and the <a href=\"http:\/\/theoldhousefair.weebly.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Old House Fair<\/a> on Saturday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">For this South Park-based writer, it&#8217;s been very interesting to watch Stone&#8217;s first expansion into my community. With two more bottleshop\/tasting room stores in the works in Oceanside and Pasadena materializing rapidly that will be powered by the very impressive Stone Distribution \u2013 it&#8217;s safe to say the South Park store was the test model. With European colonization plans in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerpulse.com\/2012\/05\/stone-brewings-koch-on-europe-iowa-challenges-succession-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">a holding pattern<\/a> until further notice, Stone seems perfectly content expanding on their home turf: Southern California.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first expansion outside the Escondido location of the Stone Brewing Co. empire, the Stone Company Store South Park, is turning 1 this Friday, June 15th. 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