>>52692
iirc Stone never really brews the exact same twice if it's not a mainstay. The mainstays are no longer brewed by Stone but subcontracted out to smaller brewers in local markets to basically help them out. It makes everyone money for the most part and allows Stone to just try new things. I think the increase of costs and overall world shit situation has just made the quality of a lot of things not really be of standard and it's just sort of the best they can do with it. It's giving them the benefit of the doubt but they're mostly a positive influence on not-corposlop beer so I kind of can overlook it and will buy them if there's no decent local.