Stone Brewing World Bistro and Gardens

After leaving Ballast Point, we took a ride over to the Stone World Bistro and Gardens in Escondido. I was blown away at the sight of this place. It's pretty serious. 

You know how they have their slogan, "You're Not Worthy"... well they don't even have a sign anywhere on their building that indicates they are a brewery, let alone that they serve any food. They don't want random visitors

 coming in off the street. They want you to know exactly where you're going before you get there. You could go as far as to say Stone has some attitude.

Before walking in I admired the structure of the building in all of its glory, then proceeded to walk down a path surrounded by hop plants and flowers(complete with humming birds hovering around them). The doors to the place are like 15 feet tall wooden castle doors and are just awesome. As you walk in to the bar you are greeted by a large koi pond, its quite nice. Now its time to get some beer. While they do carry a lot of other local beers I wanted to stick to the Stone brews, so we started with the Pale Ale, followed by the 

IPA, Smoked Porter, Arrogant Bastard and I closed it out with Levitation Ale. Like I said earlier, Stone has attitude, but they sure do back it up. The Levitation is similar to Ballast Points' Even Keel, except it's % 4.4. Low A.B.V beer sometimes flies under the radar in favor of hop bombs, but you'd really be missing out if you never tried either of these beers.

Behind the bar is some of their fermentation tanks and other brewing machinery.  On the other side of the bar is an entrance to their gardens. You can go for a nice walk and take in the scenery, or you can even get married.. it's that nice. It's evident that Mr. Koch and Co. put some serious dough into this place and I wish I lived closer so I could spend more of mine there.