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Bend Brewing Company’s Sno’d In winter seasonal has gone through a couple of incarnations. It started out as an English-style old ale, malt-forward with additions of cocoa, molasses, and holiday spices. Then three years ago, in 2019, the brewery changed it up and reformulated it as a winter IPA; I … Continue reading
December 4 is National Cookie Day, one of those for-fun-but-unofficial holidays that happens to land in the Christmas season, when many of us are baking cookies for the holidays. To commemorate the day, I’ve picked a suitably themed beer for the today’s Advent reveal: Southern Tier Brewing Frosted Sugar Cookie … Continue reading
Even though “Advent” is a Christian-based convention surround the Christmas holiday, I like to fill out this Beer Advent Calendar with all manner of holiday beers—sort of the “Happy Holidays” greeting for the season, if you will. (Which is absolutely appropriate and in no way detracts from saying “Merry Christmas” … Continue reading
Even though Reuben’s Brews of Seattle calls its Stay Frosty IPA a fall seasonal, I can’t help but look at the name and the style—cold IPA—and think that this should really be a winter beer. So it’s getting the holiday beer review treatment! Perfectly suitable for drinking this December! Reuben’s … Continue reading
Portland’s Breakside Brewery is replacing Salted Caramel Stout in its seasonal beer lineup this year, and the new LIFE Barleywine is taking its place. Not content with simply releasing LIFE, over the next four months the brewery will be releasing five additional variants, showcasing different malts from renowned maltsters. All … Continue reading
Today’s Advent beer pick takes us to Germany to drink lager and to visit Riedenburger Brauhaus, which offers up a variety of seasonal brews, including its annual Weihnachtsfestbier (Christmas festbier, or as Google amusingly translates it, “Christmas party beer”). Riedenburger Brauhaus is a traditional family brewery located in Riedenburg, Germany, … Continue reading
The winter seasonals from Double Mountain Brewery are out—released (and sent to me) early last month—and this year’s editions of Fa La La La La Winter Ale and Chocolate Stout are drinking awfully fine. Since it’s now officially December, let’s kick off a season of holiday beer reviews with these … Continue reading
Portland’s Hopworks Urban Brewery released its final two beers of the year, Winter Ritual Cold IPA and Bog Monster Cranberry Orange Gose, slotting them into the winter seasonal schedule in time for the holidays. Press release details: Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB), the first B Corp brewery in the Pacific Northwest, … Continue reading
I posted about the return of Black Butte Whiskey from Deschutes Brewery and Bendistillery, and now I’ve also got samples of this year’s releases—both the five-year whiskey and the special barrel cask strength edition. Black Butte Whiskey is distilled from the wash of Deschutes’ Black Butte Porter, and aged five … Continue reading
Another year has gone by, and here we are turning the calendar over to December. This of course means it’s time for the return of the annual Beer Advent Calendar! Hard to believe but this is the 18th year of this feature, and it’s just as the name suggests: like … Continue reading