(Escondido, CA) – Just finished watching The New School’s Behind the Pint interview with a very grizzled version of Stone Brewing Co-Founder and CEO, Greg Koch.

Koch reveals that Stone will release a very limited amount of Crime and Punishment in 500ml bottles. These would presumably be part of the Quingenti Millilitre series. He had mentioned they were making these beers again at a recent Google talk but said nothing about bottling it. Only a handful of barrels of each are being made so there won’t be much to go around. No date yet.

Here are a couple details on these two beers per the Stone blog…

Q: “What do you call it when Greg takes his entire harvest bounty of chili pepper varieties from his own personal garden, take half of them and add to…and thus ruin…an otherwise beautiful oak barrel of Double Dry Hopped Lukcy Basartd Ale?”

A: Crime!

Q: “What do you call it when you take a sip of oak barrel aged Double Bastard Ale that’s had the other half of the bounty of chili peppers from Greg’s home garden ceremoniously added in, resulting in a punishingly intense level of hot pepper heat to an already overly intense beer whose elevated alcohol level caused a significant transference of pain-inducing capsicum?”

A: “Punishment.”

A couple random tidbits…

Saison du Buff is returning this spring as previously noted and the ‘botanicals’ for the beer will be sourced from Stone Farms.

He also notes that Arrogant Bastard Ale came to be as the result of a fortunate accident and that the full story is available in the brewery’s latest book.