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Beer Birthday: Steve Wagner

April 5, 2026 By Jay Brooks 2 Comments

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Today is Steve Wagner’s 68th birthday. Steve is a co-founder of Stone Brewing and the former president of the California Craft Brewers Association. In the late 1980s, Steve was a member of the band “The Balancing Act,” who put out several albums on I.R.S. Records, then he just presided over one of the most successful microbreweries in the U.S. for quite af ew years, but after being acquired, he has retired and hopefully just enjoying his himself. Join me in wishing Steve a very happy birthday.

Mitch Steele, Stone Brewing’s brewmaster, with Steve, at CBC when it was in Austin, Texas.
The Stone crew: Arlan Arnsten, Steve and Greg Koch at CBC in San Diego 2008.
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With Stone Brewing co-founder Greg Koch in a publicity shot (by John Schulz Photography).
The day after we tried all of Stone’s Vertical Epic’s in San Diego; with Steve, me, Joe Tucker, Jason and Todd Alstrom and Greg Koch.
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Lee Chase with Steve on April 14, 1999 celebrating their first bottling run on their then new Maheen bottler. [Note: photos purloined from Stone Brewing’s website.]

Filed Under: Birthdays, Just For Fun Tagged With: California, San Diego, Southern California



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  1. Beerman49 says

    April 6, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    Long live Arrogant Bastard & all their great labels!

    Reply
  2. Steve Wagner says

    March 20, 2012 at 11:04 pm

    I just saw that not only do Steve and I share the same name and reside in the same county, but we also have the same birthday-though mine is 1o years earlier. Happy 54th coming up next month!

    Reply

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