Holiday Beers (2025)

@thebeers thanks for the special mention. I'll pass along the accolades to MamaGoose03.

Since you already called it a night, you've already relieved yourself of the host duties. Great job and thanks for doing it.

Maybe we put the mods in charge or @Todd in a holiday mood so that this thread can remain open (without an official host) so that we can have a collection place to post any more holiday beers that we still have in our fridges?

 

Never heard this Denver Classic

 

This is a super solid beer that I will buy every year, wish they'd amp up the ABV...

 

Thanks for the special acknowledgement

...and thanks for hosting this thread!

 

‘I’m down with ya, on this one — top of my December roster. They bottled a delicious Dunkelbock at 10% as recently as 2023, but it was unavailable in bottles when I visited the brewery last December. Over on Untappd, looks as if it can be had on draft around town this year. I’m headed over there later this month.

 

I concur @PapaGoose03. 1) A stellar performance by @thebeers whilst freezing his arse off and dealing with the ineptitude of his local HVAC options and 2) Let’s keep the thread and the spirit of the season humming with a dedicated landing spot for the holiday beers and photo fun that are sure to carry into the new year.

 

This is awesome!!!! Looking forward to the continued fun.

This will force my hand to grab one or two more festive beers I didn’t get yet. And like you said @russpowell I love discovering the new tunes people post.

Thanks again for the fun @thebeers and I hope you get that furnace fixed soon, damn no shows.

 

Thanks, Todd. I have at least 5 more holiday beers in the fridge, and who knows what I might find if I dig deeper.

 

Bravo, Todd. Perfect reason to renew the search for a couple of wants that so far have proved elusive (though a favorite from the previous two years, Old Jubilation, apparently was scratched from Avery’s 2025 lineup).

 

Thanks Todd! I look forward to sharing quite a few more beers to the thread.


Thanks to @thebeers for his hosting effort over the weekend.

 

@jmdrpi will you be hosting the airing of grievances on a specific day in the coming week???

 

@dcotom has that one ready to go. https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/whats-your-beef.672947/

 

For us, it's just not winter until we consume our first Red Chair of the season.

Deschutes used to play a bit of a game with the artwork and hid a bit of a Sasquatch somewhere on the label. But we haven't seen that for a while. The mountain is, of course, Mt Hood.

 

Got a at least one more & was looking at doing it closer to the date!

 

Was in downtown Philly tonight, after dinner my wife and I stopped at this Christmas themed bar called Tinsel.

I had a pint of Great Lakes Christmas Ale, and posed for a picture with Rudloph and Bumble.


Good cover of one of the songs from that movie

 

That whole bar was full of crazy Christmas art and decorations but my favorites were the Aqua Teen Hunger Force art and the mural of all of the dark Christmas folk characters like Krampus, Yule Cat, Belsnickle, etc.

 

Since I'm late to the Sunday party, I'll keep it short.
I recommend two regionals. First, Bad Santa (4.08) by Kerns River is a doppel close to the Bavarian masters. Second, Distinctive Holiday Ale (4.19) by Cloudburst could possibly fill the hole in my heart left by Anchor's Special Ale.