(San Diego, CA) – Stone Brewing Co. finally revealed the craft beer world’s worst kept secret on Thursday — that it is behind the Stochasticity Project.

Why spend seventeen-plus years building a brand only to throw it by the wayside on a new product release?

In Stone’s words…

We created it to move the spotlight off of our company and onto beer and cool, nth degree brew tech material. We felt this was best done independent of our iconic gargoyle and sometimes enthusiastic-and-bullish-to-the-point-of-bombastic nature.

As Stone points out in its blog post though, it has done this before with its “Bastard” series so this isn’t a brand-new thing for them.

In any case, future Stochasticity Project beers will carry the Stone name.

More importantly, perhaps, is that Stone revealed the second beer in the series…

Varna Necropolis, a most interesting, hoppy, Belgian-style golden strong ale that’s been aged in bourbon whiskey barrels. And right now, we’re toying with a Belgian-style quadrupel brewed with Pilsner malt, dark candi sugar and flaked triticale, a cross between rye and wheat.

No word yet on when Varna Necropolis will be released.