Topic Archives: Quingenti Millilitre
New Quingenti Entry: Saison Du Buff In Red Wine
Another entry into Stone Brewing’s Quingenti Series – Stone/Victory/Dogfish Head Saison Du Buff, aged in red wine barrels. Du Buff was/is a collaboration saison, brewed with parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
It’s a saison of sorts; hellaciously herbaceous and hopefully contagious. This was not a ready made ale. Buff is how we think, how we act, and who we are… Brewers united for freedom of flavor! Herbs in our brew? Impossible where I trained in Germany! But America has granted our breweries the amazing opportunity with gusto in making this collaborative ale. Other than the times we’ve seen each other at conferences and fests since we formed BUFF in 2003, this is the first chance we’ve had to get together over a brew (as in making it) and later, a brew (as in drinking it.) I hope you’re able to enjoy this collaborative effort with your old friends! – Sam, Bill, Greg
Style: Saison (wine barrel aged)
Availability: 500ml bottles, corked & caged
Release: TBA. Stone will tie the sales of bottles to a lottery, (or a book to buy first, lol) No distribution, if it follows previous releases.
7.9% ABV
More Quingenti Releases – https://beerstreetjournal.com/tag/quingenti-millilitre/
Recap On Saison Du Buff Collab – http://www.stonebrew.com/news/100225pr/
Sexy Peek At Quingenti El Camino
Quick peek at another release in Stone Brewing’s Quingenti Millilitre Series – El Camino (un) Real Black Ale. A 3 way collaboration between 21st Amendment, Firestone Walker & Stone released in March, 2010. El Camino is an American Strong Ale brewed with fennel, chia, pink peppercorns, and figs. This Quingenti release finds Camino aged in Virgin American Oak.
500 ml bottles
6.8% ABV
Stone Quingenti Belgo Barleywine: Bourbon & Red Wine Editions
Stone’s Quingenti Millitre Series kicked off in July. It’s Stone’s new barrel aging program. A great idea from one of the fastest growing breweries in the United States with only one problem. The beers are extremely rare. Unless you are reading this in or geographically near to San Diego, California, there is little change you will taste the awesome that lies within these bottles. However being beer geeks, or at the very least- beer interested, we like to know what’s up. So here’s whats up.
The Quingenti series has featured 2 beers to date. Stone/Maui/Ken Schmidt Coconut Porter, and 2010 Stone Old Guardian Barleywine aged in bourbon. Next 2 releases feature Stone’s Belgian edition of OG, aged in bourbon and red wine barrels.
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I write this the Tuesday following out Stone 15th Anniversary Celebration. More than 6,500 folks came out to help us celebrate our 15 years of vein in the biz. And as with every other year, we are blessed to find this one filled with many many interesting and exciting things. New “Stone Quingenti Millilitre” 500ml cork-and-wire-bale program announced? Check. New coffee table worthy book The Craft Of Stone Brewing Co: Liquid Lore, Epic Recipes & Unabashed Arrogance released Late Sept 2011? Check. Another tome I co-authored called The Brewer’s Apprentice also coming out in Sept? Check. New Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens -Liberty Station announced? Check. New “Stone Company Store” in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego opened? Check. Stone Europe announced? The idea, check. The announcement of A building expansion to the south of the brewery that may allow us to eventually brew a half a million barrels per year? Check. Impending secession from the city-state of Escondido to form our own Stonelandia? Uh, no, not yet. We like Escondido! Although it’s pretty amusing to ponder the thought… hmmm.. Stonelandia. I like the sound of it! Heh. OK back to the moment. The thing I left out in the list above was the announcement that along with the hotel and event space mentioned, we’ll have a new barrel-aging room. Enough room from many hundreds of barrels, which will mean a future filled with a lot more of the likes of what you have here in your hands. You could call it “a tasty barrel-aged future” if you like. I think I will.
Style: Barleywine (Belgian yeast)
Availability: 500ml bottles. Estimated 550 bottle yield.
Release: Stone will announce how they will be released
12% ABV
Quingenti Millilitre Series, Release #1
So Stone Brewing announced they are barrel aging. The “Quingenti Millilitre” coming soon, with this beer kicking it all off. Kona Coffee Macadamia Coconut Porter. A collaboration between Maui Brewing, Stone, and home brewer Ken Schmidt. The beer was released late 2009 in 12 ounce bottles by Stone. This revamped version finds the coconut porter aging in bourbon barrels
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What a great beer for our very first release of our new 500ml bottle size! We’re reserving this bottle for occasional limited releases of very special beers, and there’s no question that the Ken Schmidt/Maui/Stone Bourbon Barrel Aged Kona Coffee, Macadamia, Coconut Porter qualifies as just such. A while ago, we secretly squirreled away two oak barrels of this beer for a year+ nap and some resulting bourbonification.It’s cool to reflect on the fact that our now-yearly collaborations with local homebrewers are not just an acknowledgement of the amazing homebrew scene here in SoCal, but of our own homebrewing roots. Steve was quite an accomplished homebrewer when I met him in the early 90’s, and I think together we’ve accomplished quite a lot between then and today!
As our head brewer, Mitch, can attest, this beer was not easy to make (the sheer volume of the fancy ingredients alone was a bear), and the wait has been long for the barrel-aged version, but worth it. I look forward to relaxing at home with it — maybe on now, and one in a few more years! Cheers from me, Steve, Mitch, Ken, Garret and the entire Stone Team!
Availability: 500 ml bottles, corked & caged. 1st edition brewery only release
9% ABV
Quingenti Millilitre Should Be Latin For “Rare”
Stone Brewing (Escondido, CA) announced they are doing some barrel aging. This isn’t entirely new, but never in bottles and never formally introduced to the public. Even as the beer geek starts salivating over this news, these won’t be easy to find by any stretch of the imagination.
Here’s the rub: There will be very few of these bottles available, and irregularly at that. At least for the foreseeable future. Space is our biggest constraint, and filling up our brewery with barrels just isn’t an option. So if you can’t get these, we’re sorry, we really are. We’ll try to make more, and if you can make it to one of our events, there’s a chance you’ll get to try them on draft. But that’s the best we can do…for now.
Stone is calling the series the “Quingenti Millilitre” (latin for 500 milliliters). The brewery has a mix of bourbon and wine barrels in it’s arsenal, including some 184 Scotch whiskey barrels. Name dropping some residents in these barrels include the soon to be released editions of Imperial Russian Stout, and BELGO Anise Imperial Russian. There’s even a collaboration sitting in bourbon right now (as seen at left) done with Maui Brewing. 672 bottles of Ken Schmidt / Maui / Stone Kona Coffee Macadamia Coconut Porter Aged in Bourbon Barrels is slated for a brewery only release in July.
Quingenti Millilitre will feature more than just barrel aging. Stone plans some double dry hopped editions of some beers too. 500 ml bottles. Corked, caged & rare. All to be announced in due time. <StoneBlog>
