SweetWater Festive 2012, the brewery’s winter warmer, is just weeks away. The beer will arrive shortly after Danktoberfest (hitting shelves now). Festive Ale is brewed with lots of dark malt, plus a bit of cinnamon and mace.
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2012 marks the 38th brewing of Anchor Brewing’s “Our Special Ale” (aka Anchor Christmas). Each year the recipe is a different, much like the tree is on the label. 2012’s label features Araucaria heterophylla, a pine that is endemic to Continue Reading →
More new artwork from Weyerbacher Brewing (Easton, PA). The brewery’s winter seasonal will receive the artwork upgrade above. You’ll see a few familiar characters in the label too. Specifically the folks seen on Merry Monks, Blithering Idiot, and Autumnfest.
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Deschute’s Jubelale came to be in the winter of 2008. 2012’s new artwork celebrates 25 years of this winter beer. There is a lot of lore surrounding the artwork on the label of Jubelale. Local Oregon legend suggests that if Continue Reading →
Southern Tier Brewing is working a new Christmas release, initially dubbed 2XMAS. The beer is a spiced brown ale, perfect for the winter months. The kicker? Don’t expect it until 2013.
note: It could either be 2X Mas or 2XMAS.
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Today, Dunedin Brewing (Dunedin, FL) releases 200 bottles of Blitzen Ale. The bottles are hand painted 32 oz swing tops, wax dipped.
Style: Winter Warmer
Hops: Chinook, Pacifica
Malts: Pale, Carapils, Carahell, Munich, Melanoidin, Victory
Adjuncts: Cinnamon, Orange Peel, & Raw Florida Honey
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This years edition of Hoppin Frog’s Barrel-Aged Frosted Frog Christmas Ale arrives Friday at 10 AM.
The essence of Christmas is captured in teh very bottle you are holding. Perfectly blended spices compliment Frosted Frog’s rich malt flavors, creating the ultimate Continue Reading →
SweetWater Festive 2012, the brewery’s winter warmer, is just weeks away. The beer will arrive shortly after Danktoberfest (hitting shelves now). Festive Ale is brewed with lots of dark malt, plus a bit of cinnamon and mace.
Availabilty: Draft, 12oz bottles, Liter Bottles
8.5% ABV
2012 marks the 38th brewing of Anchor Brewing’s “Our Special Ale” (aka Anchor Christmas). Each year the recipe is a different, much like the tree is on the label. 2012’s label features Araucaria heterophylla, a pine that is endemic to Norfolk Island, located in the Pacific Ocean near Australia and New Zealand. The tree is also called the “star pine” due to it’s highly symmetrical shape. Expect to see this Anchor seasonal in November.
This is the thirty-eighty “Our Special Ale” from the brewers at Anchor. It is sold only from early November to mid-January. The Ale’s recipe is different every year, as the tree on the label, but the intent with which we offer it remains the same: joy and celebration of the newness of life. Since ancient times, trees have symbolized the winter solstice when the earth, with its seasons, appears born a new.
Style: Winter Warmer
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Liter Magnums, Draft. Nov-Jan.
5.5% ABV
More new artwork from Weyerbacher Brewing (Easton, PA). The brewery’s winter seasonal will receive the artwork upgrade above. You’ll see a few familiar characters in the label too. Specifically the folks seen on Merry Monks, Blithering Idiot, and Autumnfest.
Style: Winter Warmer
5.6% ABV
Deschute’s Jubelale came to be in the winter of 2008. 2012’s new artwork celebrates 25 years of this winter beer. There is a lot of lore surrounding the artwork on the label of Jubelale. Local Oregon legend suggests that if the label suggests that snow on the label predicts snow for Mt. Bachelor and it’s nearby town. What does the 2012 label suggest?
A dark, malty celebration ale with layered flavors and beautifully balanced hopping. Jubelale pours deep garnet in color, medium bodied, with notes of chicory, earth, spice and fruit. To beer lovers, it’s like Yule fire and family.
Style: Winter Warmer
Availability: 12 oz bottles
Arrival: October, 2012
6.7% ABV
Southern Tier Brewing is working a new Christmas release, initially dubbed 2XMAS. The beer is a spiced brown ale, perfect for the winter months. The kicker? Don’t expect it until 2013.
note: It could either be 2X Mas or 2XMAS.
UPDATE: 9/15/12 – Dubbed 2Xmas. Arrives Fall, 2012
Today, Dunedin Brewing (Dunedin, FL) releases 200 bottles of Blitzen Ale. The bottles are hand painted 32 oz swing tops, wax dipped.
Style: Winter Warmer
Hops: Chinook, Pacifica
Malts: Pale, Carapils, Carahell, Munich, Melanoidin, Victory
Adjuncts: Cinnamon, Orange Peel, & Raw Florida Honey
Availability: 32oz Swingtops, Draft, Cask. Winter Release.
7.5% ABV
This years edition of Hoppin Frog’s Barrel-Aged Frosted Frog Christmas Ale arrives Friday at 10 AM.
The essence of Christmas is captured in teh very bottle you are holding. Perfectly blended spices compliment Frosted Frog’s rich malt flavors, creating the ultimate Christmas experience. Celebrate the holidays as you savor this very special seasonal offering.
Style: Winter Warmer (barrel aged)
Flavor: (Per HF) A familiar and satisfying combination of carefully blended Christmas spices in a flavorful nut-brown ale, its like a Christmas cookie in a glass! The extended barrel aging in oak Bourbon casks adds a vanilla-like flavor, creating a smooth character that perfectly compliments the cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg, unlike any other Christmas beer.
Style: Winter Warmer (barrel aged)
Availability: 22oz bombers. 11/25, 11/26. Brewery only
8.6% ABV
