The Brew Site
Today’s Advent beer pick takes us to Seattle, Washington, to a brewery that opened in 2015 that offers up a diverse variety of beers—Lucky Envelope Brewing. The winter seasonal is, like several others featured so far this month, inspired by holiday baked goods: Gingerbread Cream Stout. This stout is 6% … Continue reading
When it comes to Christmas treats, stollen is a German traditional cake-like fruit bread containing dried or candied fruits, nuts, and spices, and is coated in powdered sugar; something akin to the ever-popular (or ever-infamous) fruitcake. Because it’s a holiday dessert treat I thought it would be fun to feature … Continue reading
December 10 is National Lager Day in the U.S., so naturally today’s Advent beer selection is a lager suitable for the season! August Schell Brewing of New Ulm, Minnesota, AKA Schell’s Beer, releases its annual Snowstorm to celebrate the start of winter, and this year’s Snowstorm is brewed as a … Continue reading
I’ve never featured a brewery from Alabama on this calendar in all the years I’ve been doing this, so this year is the year. Today’s Advent beer pick comes from TrimTab Brewing in Birmingham, Alabama, and features a sour ale spiced with mulling spices: Holiday Now Cranberry Spice Berliner Weisse. … Continue reading
Even though this is the Beer Advent Calendar, I like to mix it up a bit and in recent years have been including cider as one of the calendar selections; cider is beer-adjacent and just as festive during the holidays and it’s a fun addition. Hence we come to the … Continue reading
You can’t have a lineup of Christmas beers without having at least one Belgian ale present; Belgium’s tradition of brewing strong bières de Nöel for the holiday season is well established at this point, and to overlook these beers would be unforgivable. Accordingly, today’s Advent beer pick takes us to … Continue reading
It’s probably no surprise that for the Beer Advent Calendar I keep track of various seasonally appropriate holidays, observances, and anniversaries for the month of December and plan Advent beer picks around those days. What does December 6 hold? Not only is it St. Nicholas Day today (particularly in European … Continue reading
Tonight is Krampus Night! Krampus is something of the antithesis of as well as an assistant to Saint Nicholas, appearing in European eastern Alpine folklore. From Wikipedia: “Assisting Saint Nicholas, or Santa Claus, the pair visit children on the night of 5 December, with Saint Nicholas rewarding the well-behaved children … 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