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I always look to include Belgian Christmas beers in the Advent calendar each year, as many of the country’s bières de Noël rank among some of the best in the world. Today’s beer comes from a Belgian brewery I’ve never featured before on this calendar: Val-Dieu Bière de Noël from … Continue reading
Last year at this time, I wrote, “What a year 2020 has been!” Well, it seems like 2021 said, “Hold my beer” and here we are. At least it’s December 1st already, and the start of another Beer Advent Calendar! This is the 17th year(!) I’ve been running this feature, … Continue reading
It’s getting close to Beer Advent Calendar time again, so while I’ve been working on assembling the (secret…ish) list of this year’s daily Advent picks, I’ve also been making a note of the various press releases hitting my inbox for holiday themed specialty packs—mostly in the format of Advent calendars … Continue reading
We’ve made it—Christmas Eve and the final day of the Beer Advent Calendar! Today we celebrate the holiday with a perennial favorite and a beer that shows up on the calendar every year: Christmas Ale from Anchor Brewing. This is a beer I look forward to every season, not only … Continue reading
Today is the penultimate day for the Beer Advent Calendar, and is special day to me for another reason: it’s my birthday! Every year for my birthday the Advent beer pick is one I choose for “myself” so to speak, not necessarily a holiday-themed beer but a bit more self-indulgent. … Continue reading
We’re almost to the end of the Advent calendar, getting close to Christmas, and Santa Claus is getting ready to load up his sleigh. Naturally he has help doing so, so today’s beer is a nod to the elves and others putting in the time: Santa’s Little Helper, an imperial … Continue reading
Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day/longest night of the year, and to mark the occasion today’s Advent beer pick is Winter Solstice Ale from California’s Anderson Valley Brewing, a longstanding classic winter warmer from the craft beer pioneer. Amusingly, though still on the shelves now, this year the … Continue reading
Today’s beer pick is a first for the Beer Advent Calendar in all of the years I’ve been doing this: Santa Clausthaler, a non-alcoholic beer from Germany’s Radeberger Gruppe that launched in the United States. Why non-alcoholic? To start with, if there’s any year an NA beer should appear on the … Continue reading
On this day in 1843, A Christmas Carol was published by Charles Dickens, and as a nod to this quintessential Christmas story, today’s Advent beer pick is another English classic: Christmas Ale from Harvey’s Brewery in Lewes in East Sussex. No ghosts here, but if Christmas pudding were a beer, … Continue reading
The third Friday of December is designated National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day, which means today offers up a great excuse to dig out that perfect(ly ugly) sweater you’ve been holding on to all year! The character on the label of today’s Advent beer, on other hand, isn’t wearing a sweater or … Continue reading