Type: Beer – Ale
Name:  Stone Brewing Co – Levitation Ale
Price: $1.79
Made: North County San Diego
Alc/Vol: 4.4%

Stone Brew beers have always been good to me. This is one of the most well know craft beer companies in the US today, and it’s name is synonymous with sadistic humor and good taste.

Stone Levitation

“That’s Stone Levitation Ale. Not “alleviation”; not “divination”; and no, not “leviathan” either though these other oft-uttered permutations of this very special brew’s proper name may not be too far off the mark. First of all, let’s talk about what the word “levitation” means. One definition states that it means to rise in “apparent defiance of gravity”.** Yes, that’s a good one. Another perhaps more nuanced meaning is that this phenomenon is typically the “result of a supernatural power”. We’ll take that one too. After all, Stone Levitation Ale certainly defies the gravitational forces at  work in much of the beer industry today-less character, less flavor, less creativity and as for any supernatural forces at work in this beer,  well, we can only guess. (Though yeast pretty much qualifies in our book.) We do know that you will find more flavor and character than previously thought possible in a beer of such a modest (for Stone Brewing Co. anyway!) alcohol level (4.4%). It does, in this sense seem to indeed defy the laws of gravity and nature. There really is nothing unnatural at all about the beer itself, of course. It is made from the four all-natural, basic elements of craft beer: water, barley, hops and yeast. Cheers!”

I am starting to notice a very subtle common taste in my Stone Brew beers- not that it’s a bad thing- I kind of like it actually. This levitation brew didn’t have me soaring high, but it definitely got my taste buds jumping. The alcohol content is low but has the flavor is a full bodied amber ale. It has a good bitter hops taste with a nice malt finish.This is fully a craft beer, which means more flavor than you’d get if you were sipping on you name brand American light beer… But if you are willing to make the jump than Stone Brew is the place to go.  I give this beer a 3.5 out of 5 bananas.

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