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:

While some Christmas trees are making waves for looking a little too much like 2020, Harpoon is celebrating more traditional trees of yesteryear (and their history) with a new beer: From Nova Scotia With Love.

From Nova Scotia With Love was created in collaboration with Nova Scotia’s Big Spruce Brewing to celebrate the history of the province’s annual gifting of Boston’s official Christmas tree – provided each year as a “thank you” to the people of Boston for their quick aid after the devastating Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917.

To honor this tradition and the deep bond between these two regions, Harpoon created this abbey-style ale with the help of Big Spruce. Brewed with oak and cherrywood smoked malts, a touch of spruce tips, and aged in Glen Breton Single Malt Canadian Whiskey barrels, this beer comes in at a warming 9.0% ABV. It is layered with notes of dried fruit, vanilla, wood smoke, and caramel, making it the perfect drink to sip on as you’re hanging twinkling lights and ornaments while listening to your favorite carols by the fire. Harpoon even produced a special video to mark the occasion, which you will find here.

I plan to try the beer tonight so I can post a review in time for the holiday.