It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Beer: 2015 Edition

I love winter beers.  That's why, last year, I decided to launch It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Beer -- a daily look at a different winter beer throughout December.  It would be crazy of me not to do it again this year, right?  That's right, little voice in my head who tells me to do whatever I want to do regardless of the consequences.

Beginning tomorrow, I will try my damnedest to drink a different winter beer each day in December, and I'll report back to you via this here blog with a non-technical description of each beer and the following information:
-Name
-Brewery
-Location
-ABV (if available)
-IBU (if available)
-"Good for drinking if" comment
-Rating (out of five stars, by quarter star increments)

I will do my best not to overlap with any of the beers I reviewed last year, although multiple breweries change up their winter ale recipe each year (Anchor comes to mind), so I might double up on those.  Here are the beers I had last year (listed alphabetically by brewery):
Anchor Our Special Ale Anderson Valley  Winter Solstice Batemans Rosey Nosey Bell's Christmas Ale Blue Moon Gingerbread Spiced Ale Brasserie D'Achouffe N'Ice Chouffe Breckenridge Christmas Ale Brew Kettle Winter Warmer Brooklyn Winter Ale Brouwerij Huyghe Delirium Noël Bruery 7 Swans-a-Swimming Dark Horse 4 Elf Firestone Walker Velvet Merlin Goose Island Festivity Ale Great Divide Hibernation Ale Great Lakes Christmas Ale He'brew Hanukkah, Chanukah Hoppin' Frog Frosted Frog Leinenkugel's Winter's Bite MadTree Thundersnow Magic Hat Starlit Ommegang Adoration Samuel Adams Winter Lager Samuel Adams Old Fezziwig Ale Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome Southern Tier 2XMas SweetWater Festive Ale Ten Ninety Milk & Cookies Two Brothers Peppermint Bark Porter Victory Winter Cheers

West Sixth Christmas Ale

Like last year, I may not get a chance to post every day, so I may have a few "catch up" posts, where multiple beers are reviewed.  And, like last year, I will have a variety of local, regional, American, and international beers from breweries of all shapes and sizes.  When it comes to winter beers, I don't discriminate.  And remember, I hate hoppy beers, so don't be alarmed when I don't post about any "winter" IPAs, or other so-called winter beers that breweries run by putting to many hops in them.