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Happy National Lager Day! I don’t know how it came about, but December 10 is a day to observe the world’s most popular category of beer, so I like to select a seasonally appropriate lager for the Beer Advent Calendar. Germany is my go-to country when thinking of lagers, and … Continue reading
Bend Brewing Company collaborated with Newport Avenue Market and Bohemian Roastery to release a special beer, Not Your Usual Barrel-Aged Stout, a strong stout aged in bourbon barrels and conditioned on coffee. The beer was released last Friday and is on the market now; here’s the press release: Iconic Bend-based … Continue reading
Austin, Texas has a remarkable beer scene, yet somehow I’ve never featured an Austin brewery on the Beer Advent Calendar in the years I’ve been doing this. (Only three Texas breweries have made it on here over the years.) So this year I set out to rectify that and selected … Continue reading
For today’s Advent beer we travel to Germany, to the city of Rosenheim and the brewery Flötzinger Bräu, which offers up not one, but two Christmas lagers, a standard-strength lager and a stronger bock. While I’d be happy to select both for today—drink them both if you can!—the highlight for … Continue reading
Christmas is (or should be) a fun, family holiday, and I know I have fun putting together this Beer Advent Calendar every year; so it’s only fitting that today’s beer fits that “fun” theme, and comes to us from Williamsburg, Virginia: Fun, Old-Fashioned Family Christmas Ale from Alewerks Brewing Company. … Continue reading
December 6 is St. Nicholas Day, and this year it happens to be the final night of Hanukkah as well—but neither of these holidays are inspirations for today’s Advent beer pick. Instead, we look to a different event on this date: the broadcast premier of the TV special Rudolph the … Continue reading
Today is Repeal Day, in which we celebrate this date (December 5) in 1933 when Utah became the final state needed for a majority to ratify the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus ending Prohibition in the U.S. To commemorate the day, today’s Advent beer is a Christmas … Continue reading
Today, December 4, is National Cookie Day, dedicated to celebrating cookies of all kinds—and Christmas cookies in particular! Because it’s fun and whimsical, to commemorate the day I selected an Advent beer suitably themed to match: X-Mas Cookie from Ohio’s Fifty West Brewing, a winter warmer inspired by fresh-baked oatmeal … Continue reading
Here in my hometown of Bend, Oregon, the annual Community Christmas Tree Lighting takes place downtown tonight, so I have Christmas trees on the mind—hence my pick for today’s Advent beer, hailing from Ohio’s Homestead Beer Company: Tannenbaum Christmas Ale. The name of course hearkens to “O Tannenbaum,” the German … Continue reading
My latest article for The Bulletin, out this week, features an exotic wood-aged imperial pastry stout from 10 Barrel Brewing, Soul Candy. It’s a limited-release specialty from the company’s Tiny Haus innovation brewery, and the focus is on the wood—Amburana wood, from Brazil. The latest is Soul Candy, an imperial … Continue reading