The Brew Site
For today’s Advent beer pick I’ve selected a beer from a brewery that (surprisingly, to me) I had not featured before in ten years of doing this calendar: Pike Brewing out of Seattle, Washington, established in 1989 beneath the famous Pike Place Market. Their annual “Hoppy Holiday Ale” takes its … Continue reading
Honestly, when it comes to Christmas beers, it’s hard to get much better than the Belgian traditions and I always comes back to including some of the classics in each year’s Beer Advent Calendar. This year we visit village of Watou, in West Flanders, Belgium, and the Brouwerij St. Bernardus for … Continue reading
For today’s Advent beer pick I’ve gone a little old school and selected a beer from New York’s Brooklyn Brewery: their Brooklyn Winter Ale. This is a rich, Scottish-style ale brewed to 6.1% abv with a malt bill that just sounds delicious: Scottish Floor-malted Maris Otter, English crystal malts, Belgian Aromatic … Continue reading
For today’s Advent beer pick we head over to Denmark to the not inconsiderable Carlsberg Group, which brews a Christmas beer under one of their brands, Tuborg Julebryg, that has grown into quite an annual affair! The beer itself is a 5.6% abv Pilsner, and is described as: Tuborg Christmas brew … Continue reading
Today’s Beer Advent Calendar pick comes from a classic song line and wish for Christmas—namely, that it be “white.” But today’s beer isn’t the Belgian-styled Wit you might be thinking; instead, it’s Moylan’s White Christmas Spiced Winter Lager from Moylan’s Brewery out of Novato, California. It’s the most wonderful time of … Continue reading
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