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Christmas is (or should be) a fun, family holiday, and I know I have fun putting together this Beer Advent Calendar every year; so it’s only fitting that today’s beer fits that “fun” theme, and comes to us from Williamsburg, Virginia: Fun, Old-Fashioned Family Christmas Ale from Alewerks Brewing Company. … Continue reading
December 6 is St. Nicholas Day, and this year it happens to be the final night of Hanukkah as well—but neither of these holidays are inspirations for today’s Advent beer pick. Instead, we look to a different event on this date: the broadcast premier of the TV special Rudolph the … Continue reading
Today is Repeal Day, in which we celebrate this date (December 5) in 1933 when Utah became the final state needed for a majority to ratify the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus ending Prohibition in the U.S. To commemorate the day, today’s Advent beer is a Christmas … Continue reading
Today, December 4, is National Cookie Day, dedicated to celebrating cookies of all kinds—and Christmas cookies in particular! Because it’s fun and whimsical, to commemorate the day I selected an Advent beer suitably themed to match: X-Mas Cookie from Ohio’s Fifty West Brewing, a winter warmer inspired by fresh-baked oatmeal … Continue reading
Here in my hometown of Bend, Oregon, the annual Community Christmas Tree Lighting takes place downtown tonight, so I have Christmas trees on the mind—hence my pick for today’s Advent beer, hailing from Ohio’s Homestead Beer Company: Tannenbaum Christmas Ale. The name of course hearkens to “O Tannenbaum,” the German … Continue reading
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
Today is Twelfth Night, the final day of the Twelve Days of Christmas, so I thought it would be fitting to post my review of From Nova Scotia With Love, the Christmas tree collaboration beer from Boston’s Harpoon Brewery and Cape Breton Island’s Big Spruce Brewing. It’s a smoked abbey-style … 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