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This weekend’s collection of winter holiday offerings range from tart to dark and cold weather-ready!
Guinness Spices Things Up For The Holidays (Baltimore, MD) – Based just 10 miles south of downtown Baltimore, Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House is doing exciting things. And the company’s first US brewery in more than 60 years, is celebrating the season with a special small-batch holiday release. Guinness Gingerbread Spiced Ale is a 9.3% ABV Imperial Brown Ale crafted with allspice, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg and aged in bourbon barrels.
A Christmas Eve Wake-Up Call Collaboration (Massachusetts) – Back in 2014, well before Barrel House Z founder Russ Heissner opened the Weymouth-based brewery, he took a field trip to Night Shift Brewing to get a better sense of how the industry was evolving. That trip led to friendship and an eventual beer collaboration that makes its debut on Christmas Eve… Described as a collaborative homage to the winter latte and brewed with Night Shift Coffee, Captain Brunch is a limited edition Blonde Ale with cinnamon and maple syrup.
New “All The Time Beer” At Ecliptic (Portland, OR) – In January Ecliptic Brewing will be debuting a new All the Time Series release in both draft and 500ml glass bottles. Named after a constellation of stars, Ecliptic Tucana Tangerine Sour Ale is crisp and refreshing 4.8% ABV sunset-hued ale with a citrus twist, a well-balanced tartness and a subtly dry finish.
Highland Brewing Releases First Barrel-Aged Beer (Asheville, NC) – Highland Brewing has just introduced the first release from its Southern Nouveau Series, a special line of barrel-aged ales and sours. Aged in specially curated bourbon barrels for more than one year, Highland Barrel-aged Black Watch is a 11.5% ABV Chocolate Milk Stout with a brownie batter character and spicy bourbon and oak notes. All Southern Nouveau Series beers will be released on draft and in 500-ml bottles at the brewery with extremely limited distribution of select beers as the series develops.
