This year, I managed to buy three beer advent calendars. Long ago, I ordered one from the beer shop where I usually get mine each year (Bottles & Cans), and I fully intended to use that for my It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Beer entries this year. Then after I ordered and paid for that, a friend told me about another local beer shop called Beer on the Wall that also does a beer advent calendar, but with almost all dark, holiday beers. Since the Bottles & Cans advent calendar seems to have been getting more and more hoppy and sour over the years and having fewer traditional winter beers, I went ahead and ordered the Beer on the Wall calendar. I also bought the Costco German beer advent calendar, but those are just a bunch of great German beers that aren't generally otherwise available in the U.S. and not particularly winter-related, so I just opened that mamma jamma up and put the beers in my overflow pile next to my fully stocked beer fridge. I have a problem.
Like the Bottles & Cans advent calendar, the Beer on the Wall calendar has a festive punch-hole box, building suspense throughout the month. What's next? I don't fucking know because it's all covered up!
Needless to say, I'm excited to have 24 days of winter beers. Sure, there are bound to be a couple hoppy "winter" beers in there, but as long as most of them are dark, I'll be happy. To quote myself a couple days ago, "Just give me a heavy malty beer with some fucking nutmeg already."
Like in years past, 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)
As in years past, I may not get a chance to post every day, so I may have a few "catch up" posts, where multiple beers are reviewed. Cheers!
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