12 Great Beers for Winter Hibernation

Interesting that it appeared in Popular Mechanics. I liked their inclusion of several CANs & they gave me some to watch for. Thanks for the post!

 

Solid list of beers, Julius and Supplication are the two that really surprised me. I love both beers, but feel any of the beers you listed are better for the cold and long winter evenings or those days you are snowed in.

 

Thanks OP, an apt post to me since my area is forecasted to receive a little snow Friday and temps will dip starting Wednesday. I second the moderate to high ABV count when hunkered down because of extreme cold or snowy conditions. Styles I usually collect to keep around for such occasions are big (B)BA Imperial Stouts, English Barley-wines, Belgian Strong Dark Ales, and Tripels.

 

I am stocked up on Backwoods Bastard and Willettized.
Come at me winter!

 

Cool post. Would like to see what others like to have as 'hibernation' beers.

 

In no particular order:

Founders Breakfast Stout
Bell's Expedition Stout
Founders Backwoods Bastard
Dark Horse Plead the 5th Imperial Stout
North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Left Hand Fade to Black Vol. 1 Foreign Export Stout
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
St. Nikolaus Bock Bier Brewers Reserve Dopplebock
Founders Porter
Epic Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout
Paulaner Salvatore Dopplebock
Left Hand Wake Up Dead Nitro Imperial Stout

 

Great divide Hibernation, obviously.

 

In no particular order,
Yeti
DFH OA WWS
Big Bad Baptist
Ayinger Celebrator
Backwoods Bastard
Troegs Impending Descent
Speedway

 

Great list!

 

Can't forget Great Divide's Hibernation Ale.

 

JW Lees Harvest Ale comes to mind for me

 

Not bad but personally I prefer the Chimay Red over the Blue. The Red simply has more flavor too me.

 

Pretty temperate in SC, but I have a BA Ten Fidy for when it does get cold

 

I've been in the mood for IPAs this Winter. My list 12 beer list would be:

Lagunitas Willetized
Oskar Blues Death By Coconut
Pizza Boy Dub 56
Pizza Boy Hazleton Native
Pizza Boy Sunny Side Up
Sierra Nevada Celebration
Tröegs Dear Peter
Tröegs Mad Elf
Tröegs Mad Elf Grand Cru
Tröegs Nugget Nectar
Weyerbacher Sunday Mole Stout
Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout

 

There is never not a time for La Fin du Monde! Not a bad list, and, it's always Raspy time, haven't had one in a while, it's time.

 

SARA Vanilla Joe
Founders Imperial Stout
Cellarmaker Imperial Coffee and Cigarettes
Oskar Blues BA Ten Fidy
FW Parabola
FW Sucaba
Fieldwork King Citra
Alvarado Street Cool Runoffs
FW Wookus
RR Row 2 Hill 56
Founders Backwoods Bastard
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald

 

Probably won’t get snowed in out here in SoCal but if I did for whatever reason.
I’d go for the:
founders breakfast stout
Pugachevs cobra
Old Rasputin
120 min ipa
SN Big Foot
More founders Breakfast Stout

 

Since I drink these beers year-round anyway, here are my top 10 'snowed in' beers (no particular order):
Founders Backwoods Bastard
Founders CBS
Firestone Walker Parabola
Firestone Walker Sucaba
Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout
Epic Big Bad Baptist
Stone Woot Stout
Clown Shoes Exorcism at Sunset
Central Waters Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine
Dogfish Head Olde School Barleywine

 

Interesting article and thanks for the post! We're hit and miss here in the PNW as far as snow goes and being from the valley [Willamette], we rarely get anything that constitutes as "snowed in" conditions but here are some of my go-to's for the winter months in no particular order:
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, Narwhal, and Bigfoot
Founders Dirty Bastard and Breakfast Stout
Ayinger Celebrator
Block 15 Sticky Hands
Bridgeport Ebenezer
Deschutes Obsidian Stout
Cheers!