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Today’s Advent beer selection comes from the esteemed Great Lakes Brewing Company in Cleveland, Ohio, which started brewing in 1988 (one of the long timers!). The first introduced their Great Lakes Christmas Ale in the early 1990s and since 1999 it has been a six-time medal winning beer. Do not … Continue reading
Today’s Beer Advent Calendar picks takes us to Germany to Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe, a Bavarian brewery with a long history, originally founded by monks in 1050 according to Shelton Brothers (who import their beer into the United States). It was given over to the private Winkler family in 1803 who carried on … Continue reading
At sundown today, Hanukkah officially begins for 2015. In the spirit of the holidays, and because I like to make the Beer Advent Calendar as inclusive as possible, today’s pick is a Hanukkah themed beer: Portland, Oregon’s Lompoc Brewing and their 8 Malty Nights. Lompoc in fact releases at least eight … Continue reading
Today is Repeal Day here in the United States, and to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition, today’s Advent beer pick is in many ways the Ur-beer of holiday seasonals, and one that has appeared in my Beer Advent Calendar every year since I started in 2005: Anchor Christmas Ale. The … Continue reading
Happy Friday! For today’s Advent beer pick we travel to East Hartford, Connecticut, home of the Olde Burnside Brewing Company, founded in 2000 at the location of the historic Burnside Ice Company. Olde Burnside specializes in “traditional ales with a Scottish twist” so it’s appropriate that their holiday ale is a … Continue reading
Today’s Beer Advent Calendar pick is a bit of whimsy, coming from Akron, Ohio’s Thirsty Dog Brewing: their 12 Dogs of Christmas Ale, a spiced Winter Warmer that comes in at 8.3% abv. This beer’s name sums up the idea of bringing the best together to celebrate. It is filled … Continue reading
For the first day of December I selected a U.S.-brewed Belgian-styled ale for the Advent calendar pick, so today I thought I would select an ale brewed in Belgium proper to commemorate this second of December. Brasserie du Bocq was established in 1858 by Martin Belot and over six generations … Continue reading
Today is the first of December and that means it’s time to break out your Advent calendars and start counting down the days until Christmas! And here at The Brew Site it means that it’s time for the annual Beer Advent Calendar countdown—each day I will reveal a new Christmas-y … Continue reading
Happy Christmas Eve! Today is the last day of the Beer Advent Calendar, and to commemorate I picked a beer with a mouthful of a name, brewed by the “evil twin” brother of Mikkeller—no kidding, read this article for the backstory. They are both from Denmark, they are twins, they … Continue reading
Today is the penultimate day for the Beer Advent Calendar, and it does double duty as well—it’s my birthday! As is my habit each year for my birthday I choose an Advent beer that’s more for “me” than strictly for the holidays, a special beer to enjoy that I think everyone … Continue reading