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A few days ago I featured the non-alcoholic Santa Clausthaler on the Beer Advent Calendar, and I mentioned that it’s really good. And it really is, not just when it comes to non-alcoholic beers, but as an overall holiday libation, it works really well. Clausthaler is a German NA brand, … 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
Arrived yesterday: two cans of Harpoon Brewery‘s From Nova Scotia with Love, its collaboration brew with Canada’s Big Spruce Brewing, which celebrates a longstanding tradition between Boston and Halifax. It’s a big beer (9% ABV) and it arrived just in time for Christmas! Here are details from the press contact: … 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
My latest article for The Bulletin came out last week, and because it was the one before Christmas I wrote about Mele Kalikimaka Double IPA from Sunriver Brewing, because it’s a really solid DIPA and I really like the name—and I’m a sucker for Christmas-themed beers this time of year, … Continue reading
Deschutes Brewery recently provided me with a four-pack of this year’s version of Super Jubel, the “once a decade” barrel-aged imperial winter warmer that released last month. It’s the brewery’s answer to the original accidentally-freeze-distilled keg of Jubelale that was stolen from the pub 30 years ago, returned for 2020. … 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
This is the year for non-alcohol beers, as I’ve been reviewing and writing about since February, and among the latest I’ve tried and considered are five NA beers from Partake Brewing. I received the lineup which consisted of Blonde, Pale, IPA, Red, and Stout. Partake is located in Canada, with … Continue reading