As the festive holidays arrive, let us not forget one of the most celebrated reasons of family gatherings, to drink. Let us count the ways… mulled wine, spiked eggnog, hot buttered rum….but don’t forget the awesome winter and Christmas ales.  No preparation needed.

‘Tis the season for small production seasonal barrel-aged stouts and winter warmers.  While there exists no precise definition of what constitutes a Christmas beer, St. Nicholas,…

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It’s that time of year, the end.  End of the year that is, not this article.  Please do, read on.

 

During 2010, we’ve witnessed another year of amazing beers from new and older craft brewery’s alike. In the arduous research that was drinking a plethora of craft beer during the last 12 months, I’ve come up with a short list of my top ten beers of 2010. Rough job, but someone has to do it.  Each one of these deserves a place in your fridge.

 

Started in 2007,…

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I recently had a glorious, hedonistic evening, with several free flights and full pints of various Belgium style and wonderful American craft beers, some that hadn’t even been released yet. Alongside, was food pairings consisting of Santa Barbara sea urchin, duck breast w/ akane apple, chanterelles and bacon, foie gras ravioli, strips of double cut New York Strip and cheeses like the Smokey Blue and Rogue Chocolate Stout Cheddar from Rogue Creamery. And it was free.



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Beer and football. It goes together like peanut butter and jelly…like rosemary and thyme… like flies on shit or like rama lama lama ke ding a de dinga a dong. Ya’ know, like the Superbowl and the Detroit Lions – just kidding on that last one.



Football season has officially started and what better reason to increase your beer consumption? Sure, it might be the constant Coors Light and Miller Light (I think I just threw up in my mouth a little) commercials airing as MillerCoors is… Continue