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(Courtesy 21st Amendment)
What can we say? It’s not even Halloween yet and breweries have rolling out their holiday releases. Maybe we should dress up as Santa Claus on October 31st.
The good news is they are all worth your time…
21st Amendment Fireside Chat Winter Ale
San Francisco, CA-based 21st Amendment is returning what many consider to be the perfect winter beer. 21st Amendment’s Fireside Chat is a 7.9% English-style Strong Ale with a rich, dark color and bold flavor that’s perfect as the weather cools
“Fireside Chat has a wonderful warming amber color, bright toffee foam head, soft spice profile, and a rich chocolate layer on the finish that’s quite elegant,” said Shaun O’Sullivan, Co-Founder and Brewmaster at 21st Amendment Brewery. We made some slight tweaks to the recipe in 2022 that I think our fans will enjoy.”
Fireside Chat is rolling out now and will be available through December in all 34 states where 21st Amendment distributes. Get it while supplies last, because like Santa, this beer only come around once a year.
(Courtesy Sierra Nevada Brewing)
Sierra Nevada Celebration Fresh Hop
One of the nation’s most accomplished craft brewers, Sierra Nevada Brewing has a winter offering that New Belgium founder Kim Jordon claimed was her go-to holiday beer, and we couldn’t agree with her more.
First brewed in 1981, Sierra Nevada Celebration Fresh Hop Ale is a 6.8% ABV India Pale Ale, one of a very few, holiday beers that’s actually an IPA. And because it’s a fresh-hop India Pale Ale it’s subtly different every year, which is always fun.
Shiner Holiday Cheer
Holiday beers can come in all shapes and sizes and the Spoetzl Brewery’s (home to the entire Shiner family of beers) has returned a super-interesting winter offering that’s as unusual as it is dependable.
(Courtesy Shiner Beer)
Crafted with pecans and peaches whose flavors are enhanced through Krausening, a traditional German brewing technique for carbonating beer before, during, and after fermentation, Shiner Holiday Cheer is a dark and malty 5.4% ABV Dunkelweizen (Dark Wheat Ale) that takes an old world tradition in a truly Texas direction.
The Spoetzl Brewery was founded in Shiner, Texas (population 2,069), in 1909, by Czech and German immigrants brewing beer with old-world traditions and recipes for Central Texas. Since then, the brewery has grown to be one of the largest independent craft brewers in the country and its holiday beer is a classic. To this day, every drop of the award-winning beer is brewed right in Shiner, TX, where it all started 113 years ago.
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