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The next beer doesn’t sound very festive. Sounds more like danger and mopping but Prairie Artisan Ales has fashioned a sour ale with all the holiday spices sure to liven up a Christmas gathering.
Now we get into the meat of the holiday ales. Each day until Christmas there will be a new holiday beer to learn about along with other beer-y tidbits from both Los Angeles and the world.
~ e-visits to (3) from the Craft Beer and Brewing magazine Best Of Lists
~ special featured reviews of Christmas beers of course!
~ Heads-Up on Los Angeles Beer Events
~ Three suggested beers to buy this month. One light, one medium and one dark
~ A Book & A Beer reads Night Boat to Tangier
~ A Podcast & A Beer listens to The Battle of 187
~ I will tap the Firkin and give my no holds barred opinion on the craft beer world.
Here are two events to get your December started in the Los Angeles craft beer world:
1) December 7th – Brewyard’s 4th Anniversary Pajama Jammy Jam
2) December 8th – El Segundo Christmas Parade
If the ingredient list on this winter beer doesn’t make you want to cozy up under a blanket and watch the snow, well then, I cannot help you. I understand why this beer from de Garde is limited but I wish I could just pick one up.
To DTLA we go for our second holiday beer…
Angel City adds in a pair of off the beaten path items to this new winter IPA.
We are close to the 2018 finish line, here is the next holiday ale…
A canned San Diego IPA from Pure Project.
Nice and naughty lists meet your ethics….
Coming from the Garage Series of beers from Monday Night Brewing, this beer is a “decadent imperial stouts aged in different barrels. This one just happens to be our Maple-rum barrel aged variety. We combined fresh ginger, nutmeg, Vietnamese cinnamon, cloves and Tahitian vanilla beans for that classic gingerbread aroma and flavor.”
We head out of country for our next holiday beer….
Straffe Hendrik from Bruges in Belgium has their Xmas Blend II. The beer is a Belgian quadrupel aged in oak at a not insubstantial 11% abv.
Best use a gloved hand to grasp the can for this “yeast driven” IPA from Alvarado Street, you don’t want to have the can stick to your hand.
Back to the colder climes of the PNW with a pale ale, winterized by Gigantic Brewing.
Staying in southern climes and in the same IPA style we head to NoDa Brewing Co. for their Happy and Hoppy Holidays.
I prefer the Mrs. Claus can.