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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
New York’s Southern Tier Brewing Company, well-known for its imperial beers and pastry stouts, has also long offered 2XIPA, its core double IPA, along with a variety of other “2X” brews (such as 2XMAS, its Christmas winter warmer, 2X Stout, 2X Presso, and so on). For 2022 the brewery amped … Continue reading
With Thanksgiving on top of us, it’s time to plan out your beer selections for the big day. There are a number of ways to approach beers for Thanksgiving. For instance, do you match beer style to menu? Do you have particular favorite beers you always have to have? Or … Continue reading
Today’s Advent beer pick comes from New York and the Southern Tier Brewing Company, who, while brewing a solid line of “regular” beers, is perhaps best known (out here on the west coast anyway) for brewing big bold extreme beers such as Creme Brulee Imperial Stout, Imperial Pumking, Imperial Cinnamon … Continue reading
Another post of Tuesday Tastings for this second week of May, featuring an iconic IPA and a couple of out-of-season reviews. Bell’s Brewery Two Hearted Ale It probably doesn’t need to be said that Bell’s is one of the oldest and most-respected breweries in the United States, dating the first … Continue reading
Today, December 6, is St. Nicholas Day, a festival observed in many European countries that celebrates St. Nicholas as a bringer of gifts to children. “Santa Claus” of course is derived from the St. Nicholas legend, and some of the regional celebrations of St. Nicholas Day are strikingly familiar: children place … Continue reading
When I think of Christmastime beers, I tend to conceptualize Winter Warmers, or dark spiced ales, or (as in the case of my own homebrewed version) strong/Old Ales styled after holiday fruitcakes. Rarely if ever has a beer inspired by a mulled drink crossed my mind—beer used as the base in … Continue reading
As the cold weather descends and the prospect of snow looms with the winter, it only seems fitting to turn to a beer named Old Man Winter, from Southern Tier Brewing, and thus that is our Advent Calendar pick of the day. Subtitled “a liquid winter wonderland,” this is how … Continue reading
Southern Tier Brewing has been showing up in limited quantities here in Central Oregon lately, but those have been (mostly) confined to their limited Imperial Stout series; the one you all know I really wanted to try for quite awhile was their Imperial Pumking: Pumking is an ode to Púca, … Continue reading
Southern Tier Brewing, up in Lakewood, New York, brews a series of Imperial Stouts (their “Blackwater Series”) that, from what I’ve tasted so far, can best be described as “decadent.” At least two are brewed with coffee, and their Jah*va Imperial Coffee Stout is available here in Bend. This is … Continue reading