Day 8: Revolution Brewery Fistmas Revolution is a pretty well-known brewery for us in the midwest since it’s based in Chicago. We visited it a couple years ago with family; huge facility with very impressive packaging and barrel aging components. They have a rather large portfolio of …
Day 7: Breckenridge Brewing Holidale Breckenridge is a brewery we are all fans of, they usually make really solid beers. Holidale is their Whiskey Barrel Aged Christmas Ale. “It offers toasted biscuit notes complemented by soft caramel sweetness with hints of oak and whiskey.” This is …
Day 6: Santa Clausthaler Surprisingly, for the first time on this calendar we have a non-alcoholic beer! Clausthaler Brewery is based in Germany and brews only non-alcoholic beer. This holiday beer is the first of its kind. It is a 50/50 blend of Clausthaler Original …
Day 5: Gravely Brewing Partridge Pear Ginger Holiday Ale Both this brewery and beer are new to the group, which is always fun! They opened up in August 2017 in Louisville, KY, and our friends were able to score some cans in Cincinnati. The brewery says …
Day 4: Dubuisson Scaldis de Noël The first Belgian beer on the calendar. When thinking about Christmas beers, Belgian beers often come to mind first because of their dark, rich color and flavors. Scaldis Noël is a new to the group lineup, which is surprising since it’s a …
Day 3: BrewDog Hoppy Christmas Getting back on the hoppy train with this beer. BrewDog states that the flavors in this are “tangy citrus, papaya, pineapple with a malty finish”. It doesn’t sound like your typical Christmas Ale but we’re always excited to try something …
Day 2: Avon Brewing Company Christmas MiraCLE The first new addition to the calendar this year. This beer has been marketed as “Avon’s very own Christmas Ale.” We couldn’t find much out there on it other than it’s made with “local honey, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg.” …
It’s finally time for the best beer event of the year: our annual Holiday Beer Advent-ure calendar. If you’re new around here and have no idea what we’re talking about, check out some of our past inaugural posts (here and here) to get all the …
Now that we’re back from all our planned out of state trips, we wanted to do some exploring in Ohio. We enjoy these little day trips because there’s still so much we haven’t seen! Eastern Ohio is an area that’s pretty much undiscovered for us, …
One of the best decisions we made during the pandemic was to finally try grocery shopping at ALDI. We’ve heard so many good things about the organic produce, snack selection, fresh meats and much more from our friends and co-workers that we had to try …