This year Joe Sixpack (AKA Don Russell) is doing the Christmas countdown thing, too. Each day until Christmas he’s counting down the top 25 beers featured in his new book: Christmas Beer. (Gotta love cross promotion!)

The first beers: 25. 2° Below (New Belgium Brewing); 24. Winter White Ale (Bell’s Brewery); 23. Scaldis Noel (Brasserie Dubuisson Freres).