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In Texas, Shiner Bock is a beery institution, the long-brewed (since 1913) flagship beer from the 100-year-old Spoetzl Brewery located (appropriately enough) in the town of Shiner. For a brewery that’s been producing beers for nearly 100 years (interrupted only by Prohibition, of course), Spoetzl had not brewed a holiday … Continue reading
A comment on the Anchor Christmas Ale post read thusly: Did a quick google search and found you guys. I’ve been doing a beer advent calendar for a few years and started blogging it last year. You may or may not be interested in having a look. And pointed me … Continue reading
Today’s pick comes from beer writer Lew Bryson, author of a number of books, a slew of articles, interviews, and columns, and at least two blogs. Lew’s pick comes from Pennsylvania Brewing Company, informally known as Penn Brewery. Call it the Ghost of Christmas Beer Past: you can’t get this … Continue reading
Today’s pick comes from beer writer Jay Brooks, author of the excellent Brookston Beer Bulletin as well as columns for several other publications and blogs. Jay picks a perennial favorite. The original American Christmas beer, at least in modern times, is undoubtedly Anchor Christmas Ale, whose official name is really … Continue reading
You can’t talk about Christmas beers without mentioning the beers of Belgium, and each year I try to make sure to feature several Belgians on the Advent Calendar, so today’s beer pick is likely the first of several: Cuvée de Noël from Brasserie St-Feuillien. Cuvée de Noël is a Strong … Continue reading
Part of the fun of doing the Advent Calendar is the research: finding those obscure yet tasty-sounding beers that (maybe) no one knows about and being able to highlight them. It’s partly the thrill of discovery, and partly the chance to keep it fresh. So it is that today’s beer … Continue reading
Draft Magazine is running a daily beer feature for the holidays, similar to the Advent Beer Calendar. I love these kind of beer countdowns, it’s always fun to read other people’s picks on these kind of lists. Thus far they’ve selected BridgePort Ebenezer Ale and Lazy Boy Mistletoe Bliss. I’ll … Continue reading
Today’s beer is a strong Winter Warmer from Birra del Borgo in the heart of Italy: 25 Dodici. There have been some amazingly interesting beers coming from Italian brewers in recent years, and I couldn’t pass up the chance to feature one of their holiday offerings. This Christmas beer is … Continue reading
The beer I selected for this first day of December is Goose Island Christmas Ale, a classic Winter Warmer from Chicago. Goose Island proffers up their Christmas Ale in the traditional way: by tweaking the recipe each year. Every year to celebrate the holiday season, we brew up our Christmas … Continue reading
The first of December heralds the start of the Advent Beer Calendar, an annual tradition here at The Brew Site going back to 2005. This year’s Calendar is the fifth incarnation(!), and this year in addition to selecting the various Christmas beers myself I thought it would be fun to … Continue reading