Stone Brewing Co. CEO and co-founder Greg Koch, center, toasts the crowd after announcing the Escondido, Calif., brewery's plan to build a brewery and bistro in Berlin. Stone Brewing Co. is spending about $25 million to renovate a historic gas works building into a brewery, packaging and distribution center, restaurant and garden set to open late next year.

Some of the nation’s largest craft breweries are setting up shop in European countries famous for defining age-old beer styles to help quench a growing thirst for American craft beer overseas.

This historic gas works building will soon house Stone Brewing Co.'s brewery and bistro in Berlin. Stone, based in Escondido, Calif., is spending about $25 million to renovate the building into a brewery, packaging and distribution center, restaurant and garden set to open late next year. The company is one of the top 10 biggest craft breweries in the U.S., and will make beer for its bistro and distribution throughout Germany and Europe.

Alexis Briol, of Brasserie St-Feuillien in Belgium, left, and Green Flash brewmaster Chuck Silva, pour hop pellets into a batch of beer. San Diego-based Green Flash is making and selling fresh beer in the European market under a handshake deal with Brasserie St-Feuillien.