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December is ON and American craft brewers are addressing the colder weather with rich, dark beers that pair well with roaring winter campfires.
Fathoms Deep (Chico, CA) – Sierra Nevada Brewing is returning a fall favorite that was inspired by the mysterious creature that thrives in the deepest fathoms of the frigid Arctic Ocean. Ideal for slow sipping and cool evening’s, Sierra Nevada Narwhal Imperial Stout is a pitch black 10.2% ABV seasonal with a malt-forward complexity, a velvety smooth body and decadent finish.
Made Of Stout Stuff ( Salt Lake City / Denver) – Epic Brewing Utah’s first brewery since prohibition to brew exclusively high alcohol content beer has returned its Big Bad Baptist Stout Series for 2022. And while all this year’s variations are worth your time, we kept returning to this one. Aged to perfection in whiskey barrels with toasted coconut and cacao, Big Bad Baptist Toasted Coconut: 2022 Rare Release is a hearty 12.4% ABV Imperial Stout that will not disappoint.
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An Eye Opener (Cape May, NJ) – Bacon and eggs and burger and fries are perfect pairings, but perhaps the best pairing of them all is coffee and stout and Cape May Brewing makes a great one. Conditioned on a select locally-roasted coffee, Cape May Coffee Stout is a 6.5% ABV seasonal release that’s dark, roasty, and incredibly balanced.
“We’ve been brewing outstanding coffee stouts for years,” says Cape May Brewing Company CEO Ryan Krill, “and our fans have always gone crazy for them. Using locally-roasted coffee, Cape May Coffee Stout is the latest — and best — of these brews, with a lineage tracing back to our very first days as a brewery.”
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A New Winter Classic (Durango, CO) – Ska Brewing has a great new holiday release which marks a decade of the Durango, Colorado brewery’s seasonal Stout experimentation. Crafted with actual peppermint bark (white chocolate, dark chocolate, and candy canes) made in Durango by the Animas Chocolate Company, Ska Peppermint Bark Stout is a 7.5 holiday pleaser that deserves a place in Dad’s Christmas stocking.
“Peppermint bark was invented by Williams Sonoma in 1998,” said Ska Brewing Co-Founder and CEO Dave Thibodeau. “Turns out we opened the brewery before peppermint bark was officially a thing, but the chocolate and candy cane combination goes back as long as most of us can remember.”
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