Posted on 12/12/2020 10:30:27 AM PST by mylife
This holiday season you may want to diversify your normal beer consumption and try out a seasonal holiday brew.
But there can be so many beers to choose from, you may not know where to start. To make your decision easier, I decided to put five widely available holiday beers to the test.
I sampled Samuel Adams' Winter Lager, the Shiner Holiday Cheer Bavarian-style dark wheat from Spoetzl Brewery, Sierra Nevada's Celebration Fresh Hop IPA, Harpoon's Winter Warmer Holiday Ale, and New Belgium Brewing's Accumulation White IPA.
Here are the five holiday beers I tried, ranked from my least favorite to my favorite.
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Meh, beer is like women and cars, we all have opinions.
Copy that.
I’m not a beer person. On the extremely rare occasion I drink, it’s brown or nothing.
For holidays, I make, “Apple Distillate” from The Outer Worlds video game. Stuff’s dangerous.
1 gallon apple juice.
Same of apple cider.
8-10 Cinnamon sticks.
1-½ cups brown sugar.
Same of granulated sugar.
Bring to boil and simmer for ten minutes, remove sticks, set aside to cool completely; refrigerated is even better.
1 750-ml bottle of Pinnacle Whipped vodka.
1 750-ml bottle Everclear or equivalent grain alcohol. (Original recipe calls for a liter, but that’s... A lot.)
Combine and refrigerate.
It does NOT taste like booze. The stuff will get you loaded SO fast, and it’ll confuse kids if they accidentally get some. It’s just like apple pie and whipped cream. I made some last year, and it knocked down a whole lot of my pals who are, ah... Alcohol tolerant.
That’s a good list. Heady Topper is in a class by itself but as scarce as hen’s teeth. Lawsons Sip of Sunshine and Chinooker’d have been my go tos as of late.
I had the Yuengling Hershey concoction a few times last year. The local bar had it on tap for several months. I enjoyed it but one at a sitting is plenty, kind of on the heavy side.
“Meh, beer is like women and cars, we all have opinions”
Sure, but when you have hundreds if not thousands of data points on a particular beer you have a decent idea where a beer stands.
HAVING SAID THAT....I was looking at a previous years Sierra Nevada holiday offering. 2020 is 93 points, I’m going to check it out even though I’m on a low-carb diet right now.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/1904/
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale is a 93, don’t know what you were looking at.
Have you tried any BrewDog? Born in Scotland, brewed in Ohio.
For me, Budweiser Light Platinum is the most drinkable at 6% alcohol (APV). Anything with a fruit flavor is off the table. Hard cider is disgusting. For a full bodied beer, my all time favorite is Okanagan Spring Porter (Canada)8.5% ABV. I have to travel up to Vancouver, BC to get it. It’s worth the drive.
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