The Brew Site
Today I’m coming back closer to home and selecting BridgePort’s Ebenezer Ale. It’s a rich, strong, medium-hoppy beer. It’s been awhile since I’ve had this, but from what I remember it was a pleasantly strong winter warmer. Though reading some of the reviews on BeerAdvocate makes me think I missed … Continue reading
Today we travel to France for Brasserie Duyck‘s Bière De Noël, a Saison-style ale that is, according to their website, "Darker than the traditional amber beer, its torrefied undertones are reminiscent of flowers and caramel." The site also notes: Produced with more malt than Jenlain Ambrée (3 different types of … Continue reading
Today’s pick is Sly Fox Christmas Ale. I don’t really know anything about the beer, or the brewery, but I’ll trust BeerAdvocate on this one: a score of 87 with a 100% reviewer approval rating. The Sly Fox site gives this description: A malty, full-bodied red ale made with traditional … Continue reading
Today I chose Samuel Smith’s Winter Welcome Ale for Day 4. This is a nice, understated beer—I didn’t notice the spiceness that’s prevalent with other holiday beers. Clear, sweet and hoppy, it packs a respectable (though not excessively high) alcohol (by volume) of 6%. Their website gives serving suggestions: Roast … Continue reading
Today’s pick is Goose Island Christmas Ale. At 5.6% alcohol by volume, it’s a little weaker than one would expect from a winter warmer/holiday ale, but don’t let that fool you. From their website: Every year to celebrate the holiday season, we brew up our Christmas Ale, and with each … Continue reading
Yes, I already wrote about this back in October, but today’s beer is Deschutes Brewery’s Jubelale. Each year Deschutes selects a new artist and theme for the label, and locals always look forward to when this seasonal is released. Strong, malty, caramel-y, roasty, every year Deschutes hits a home run … Continue reading
I thought it’d be neat to kick off December by doing a "Beer Advent Calendar" here, featuring a different Christmas beer each day up to Christmas. So, the first beer is Anchor Christmas Ale. Each year the recipe Anchor uses to brew this beer is different, as is the label. … Continue reading
In keeping with my apparent trend in pointing to historical beer items, I thought this anecdotal bit of history about the Fesenmeier Brewing Comany was interesting. (Though it died as a result of Prohibition.) Sons of the German Fesenmeier family, which had started a brewing beer in the Cumberland, Md., … Continue reading
Interesting article: Ancient Egyptian Alcohol, with a large section on the beer of Ancient Egypt. Beer was depicted on the walls of the tombs, as were scenes of the ancient Egyptian brewery. It was probably very similar to the way beer is still produced in Sudan today. Traditionally, beer was … Continue reading
A little post-holiday-yet-Thanksgiving-related beer history: American History Shaped by Colonial Beer Run. The Pilgrims landed where they did (Plymouth Rock), which by the whims of history gave us the tradition and holiday of Thanksgiving, because they needed beer.