Thanksgiving Beer Lineup (2021)

Thinking about opening my bomber of 2017 Backwoods Bastard at noon while cooking, and sipping on it throughout the day

 

I'm 25, I only travel at the absolute bare minimum price

 

Only bringing a carry-on cause Wednesday travel is an absolute madhouse

 

Celebration for sure.

also will follow the recommendation on another thread and offer a beer cocktail with Yuengling Hershey's and a pumpkin beer. might go ST Pumking nitro to bump up the body.

always a pre-meal saison for my sister; this time Suarez Local Boy.

and after the crowd has dissipated, BA Spice Cake with late night second dessert. too good to share with more than a few.

 

Is this an online event? How do I participate?

 

I'm sort of new to the beer scene. I'd like to try a sour, and Thanksgiving seem like a great opportunity. Do you have some recommendations? Thanks

 

I'd go with Jester King Le Petit Prince. Or a grisette. YMMV.

I wish I'd said this.

 

Dad jokes from @PapaGoose03 ... seems legit.

 

Heh, heh, heh!

 

Welcome to the BA site, and to the wonderful world of good beer. Hang around and explore the site as much as you can and you'll learn a lot.

If you've never tried a sour beer, here's my version of a primer to get you started. Check out the style description page https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/styles/ and scroll down to the Wild/Sour section at the bottom. Read the descriptions of each style to get an idea of the terms that define the tastes found in these beers.

Two major types of sours exist - those that are what is called Kettle Soured, and those that are soured by adding certain yeasts or 'bugs' to the beer and then usually aging them in barrels while the souring occurs.

Kettle Sours are brewed by many breweries as just another beer style on their beer menu. I think they tend to be local/regional because I can't thing of an example right now to recommend to you that you might find in Massachusetts. Pick a favorite brewery and look at their page here in the Places section and see what they might have. Read some reviews of the beers to see what descriptors are mentioned of the taste. Choose something that sounds good.

Some barrel-aged sours can be found nationally, and three breweries that should be easy to find for you are Jolly Pumpkin, Goose Island, and New Belgium. Jolly Pumpkin is almost exclusively a sour beer brewery, but the other two each have a couple of sour beers that are popular nationally in addition to their large portfolio.
Jolly Pumpkin: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/9897/
Goose Island: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1146/
New Belgium: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/192/

Look at each brewery's page, click on the column header for Style to arrange the list alphabetically, and scroll down to Sour or Wild Ale to see the offerings. (Sometimes the Farmhouse/Saison category has beers that are tart/sour, so you could also look at them.) Choose a beer that has many reviews, which means it's likely a nationally-distributed beer that you should be able to find, and read some reviews.

It's been years since I've had the beers from Goose Island or New Belgium, so I don't want to recommend any of their sours, but if one sounds good to you, go for it. The Jolly Pumpkin beers are all good. I'm partial to La Roja and Maracaibo Especial. Take a look and choose what sounds interesting.

Good luck.

 

The 'best' Pumpkin Ale to produce a Chocolate Pumpkin is one with a pronounced spice character. It has been a long since I had a Southern Tier Pumpking but I seem to recall it being quite spicy.

Cheers!

 

I'll definitely have Celebration at hand and I'm definitely contemplating the SA mix pack. I usually enjoy something a bit lighter with all the amazing flavors that'll be going on. I do like a nice hearty stout afterwards while watching football so maybe I'll see if I can find something of the link. Right now I have:

SN Celebration
Anchor's Christmas Ale
Homebrewed Oktoberfest and Amber Ale
SA Old Fezziwig
SA Holiday Porter

 

I usually plan on one or two "special" beers. The rest is whatever sounds good that day. So, this Thanksgiving, the "special" beer is Birthdaywine from Fonta Flora. Which is a double barrel-aged Barleywine. Matured for 13 months in bourbon barrels and 7 months in blackberry wine barrels.

 

Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien ale de garde, 3 Fonteinen cuvee Armand & Gaston, and Souther Yankee Imperial Pumpkin Ale. A bit of Europe and a bit of Texas. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

 

Sounds divine

 

I wish I had a lineup. I have to be up around 4:30 AM for work the next day.

 

So far I have 1-2 Ten Fidy's lined up once I get back from family get together. I'm hitting a craft beer store today so I will definitely be adding some IPAs to that line up.

 

Great info on a subject that is not common knowledge, I’m going to check it out

 

I'll be pulling from what I picked up this morning...

Minus whatever I end up having today... lol

Happy pre-Thanksgiving, BA...

 

Maybe it's just me, but I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around St. Bernardus in a can.

 

Well played sir
Well played

 

NEBCO G-Bot, Super Supernaut, and Imperial Stout Trooper
Two Roads Holiday Ale
Heady Topper
Allagash Tripel
Fiddlehead Second Fiddle
Alvarium Honey Shot
Bissell Brothers Monolith

 

Angry chair for the win!!!

 

Finest Kind by Smuttynose Brewing. A revisit of a tried and true favorite. I just might crack the cap on one later tonight. Quality control. Cheers.

 

Dogfish Head Utopia
Drekker Fruited Sours
2017/2018 BCBS
Hamm's
Coronita's (palate cleanser)
King/Psuedo Sue
Making a Standing Rib Roast Mashed Potatoes and sausage stuffing.

 

Where in FL?

 

Hey all!

I agree with a lot of you that this is one of my favorite threads every year. Thanksgiving is my favorite drinking day of the year, as well!

My local shop didn't have Celebration in yet (odd), so I'll have other yearly regulars: Jubelale and Accumulation, both favorites of my wife and I, then a couple of stouts (Revolution Deth's Tar and Cafe Deth). I'll probably add in a barleywine at some point, as well, as I'm a Revolution fanboy and Straight Jacket might be the perfect beer.

Cheers, all! Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Not me! In fact, it was when I first postulated putting "better" Belgian beers in CANs that the slings & arrows REALLY got loosed on me. I'm still waiting on Westy to pull the trigger ...

 

I'm out of the country for the holidays this year but we found a local farmer with a turkey and we have one reserved for both Thanksgiving. If we manage to pull Thanksgiving off this year it will be Saturday and there will be mostly local wine served but pre-dinner I have some local beer to serve, from the Little Belgique near Richelieu France. \his saison is wonderful and light enough to serve with the aperitif snacks

 

A Thanksgiving dinner beer pairing is tough for me. I will be working at USPS tonight from 2300 to 0730 then I am going OUT to eat with my uncle at 1300, so no BYOB at that restaurant. I have to be back in to work at 2300 to CANtinue the madness.

It's a tad late, IMHO, for Pumpkin beers & just like Christmas music, I'll brook NONE of it, including my Christmas/Holiday/Winter stash, until Friday at the earliest. I'd prefer to hold off on Christmas beers until W, 01 Decembeer 2021 when "Batteries released!" will be sounded & CANnon fire CANmences in earnest.

Hmm, that was a long prelude to my being unsure. I have instituted "Pineapple Thursday" on Untappd with a hashtag to that effect. I must have at least one pineapple-related beer in abeyance. Yeah, that's the ticket!

 

Thanksgiving beer this year is a 2020 Bourbon County "Wild Turkey" Easter egg variant. See what I did there?

I'm doing the 12 days of Christmas beers this year which will consist of the following Firestone Walker. Yeah, it's only 11. I've got to find another I've not tried before.

Firestone Walker Parabola - 12oz
Firestone Walker Parabola - 12oz
Firestone Walker Parabola - 12oz
Firestone Walker Parabola - 12oz - Autumn edition
Firestone Walker Stickee Monkee - 12oz
Firestone Walker double barrel Parabola - 12oz
Firestone Walker XXV - 12oz
Firestone Walker Amburana Parabola - 12oz
Firestone Walker Sucaba - 12oz
Firestone Walker XXIII - 12oz.
Firestone Walker XXIV - 12oz.

 

That said, I'm in.

 

Thinking about a Thomas Hardy's via Zid....dip into the stash and enjoy!

Cheers!

 

well, it is with the in-laws and wife is driving, so I will be looking for anything with massive ABV that I can bring in volume.

 

I gotta give a shout out to the fruit beer classics that made Thanksgiving famous as a unique pairing opportunity. I'm speaking specifically of my 21st Century long relationship with New Glarus' Wisconsin Red and Raspberry Tart. While New Glarus' fruit formula produced other fruit beer renditions based on what was available, those two pioneers paired great with cranberries and cut through the turkey grease. And most important, the wine drinkers (usually female) suddenly know that beer ain't all bad.

New Glarus' contributions even are good enough to distract and elevate the discussions of sex and politics that usually, for good reasons of being impossible to resolve, are prohibited from Thanksgiving gatherings.

If you suggest other beers that do all that, please provide evidence.

 

What year?