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For today’s weekend Advent beer pick we travel to America’s heartland to Empyrean Brewing Company in Nebraska, a fixture in Lincoln since the 1990s. Empyrean brews a hazelnut brown ale for the winter season, an easy-drinking beer named Winter Wisdom. Wise up. Look deep within this brown ale to breathe … Continue reading
Happy Friday (TGIF)! Today (Friday) is Roast Chestnuts Day, seasonally appropriate but I don’t know that I’ve seen too many street vendors roasting chestnuts around; perhaps find a nice nut brown ale to substitute? At any rate here is the news for this weekend of the 14th, which I’ll be … Continue reading
Today’s Advent beer pick is a straight Belgian classic Biêre de Noël from Brasserie Dubuisson: Scaldis Noël. Dubuisson has a long and rich history, having been founded in 1769, and introduced Scaldis Noël in 1991. The Scaldis Noël was introduced in 1991 to respond to consumer demands for the ideal beer to … Continue reading
Two big beers from Harpoon Brewery out of Massachusetts arrived at the house yesterday: MacGuffin, a wee heavy, and Catamount Bourbon Barrel Aged Porter. These are new seasonals to Harpoon this year and about them the brewery tells me: MacGuffin: A member of Harpoon’s 100 Barrel Series, this beer balances … Continue reading
Sunriver Brewing announced the 2019 lineup for its limited-release draft offerings, available outside of the pub-only specials. Included in the press release is the schedule for two categories, the IPA Factory and Double IPA Factory, which makes me think there will other categories that will be added to the schedule … Continue reading
Today is National Cocoa Day, which is tangentially related to beer in that cocoa is sometimes used by brewers—so enjoy a cup of hot cocoa or seek out a chocolate-infused porter or stout to commemorate the day. In the meantime, here’s the news for this December 13, which I’ll be … Continue reading
For this 13th of December we’re traveling north for our Advent beer pick, and land in Anchorage, Alaska, home of Midnight Sun Brewing Company. Midnight Sun brews CoHoHo Imperial IPA, the label of which features a coho salmon wearing a Santa hat, with brown sugar, honey, and juniper berries. Designed … Continue reading
Happy Hump Day! Here’s the Oregon beer news for this Wednesday, December 12 to help get you over the hump this week. As usual I’ll be updating this post throughout the day, so check back in occasionally for the latest news. Fort George Brewery (Astoria) releases the first in its … Continue reading
We are at the halfway point for the Advent beer calendar! For this twelfth day we’re visiting Charlotte, North Carolina and NoDa Brewing. NoDa offers up a holiday IPA named, appropriately enough, Hoppy Holidays. In addition to the hops, NoDa spruces up this IPA with, er, spruce tips to accentuate … Continue reading
Here is the news in beer from around Oregon for Tuesday, December 11. As usual I’ll be periodically updating this post throughout the day with news as I find it, so check back in from time to time for the latest. And if you have news to share, feel free … Continue reading