Day 25: Great Lakes Brewery Christmas Ale & Final Reflections Well we made it! We survived another 25 day holiday beer advent-ure. For our final beer, as a group, we decided on Great Lakes Christmas Ale. As we mentioned in previous posts, this is the …
Day 24: Thirsty Dog Brewing Company 12 Dogs of Christmas Many Northeast Ohio folk claim this beer as their favorite. In the recent years, Broad has grown to love this beer even more than Great Lakes. Interestingly enough, this is said to be the original …
Day 23: Bell’s Brewery Christmas Ale Bell’s is another favorite brewery of ours. We get most of their beers here because they come from the state up North. One of Broad’s favorite winter ales is their Winter White Ale which is a Belgian wheat ale. It’s …
Day 22: Delirium Noel Broad has a special place in her heart for Delirium (produced by Brewery Huyghe). It was one of the first craft breweries she fell in love with and Tremens is one of her all time favorites. Unfortunately, these beers tend to …
Day 21: Brew Kettle Winter Warmer Brew Kettle has been a staple of Northeast Ohio since 1995. They were Ohio’s first brew-on-premise microbrewery, meaning you’re able to go to their facility to choose from over 70 different recipes, brew the beer (under the supervision of …
Day 20: Platform Beer Co. Esther Platform Beer Co. is still a fairly new brewery, they’ve only been opened a little over two years. But their beers have made a huge impact on the Cleveland beer scene. They’ve also recently expanded and opened a brewery …
Day 19: Boulevard Brewing Co. Nutcracker Ale We have been obsessing over Boulevard beers since our road trip across the country. We had a stop in Kansas City and indulged in many Boulevard beers. They only recently started distributing in Ohio and we made all …
Day 18: Victory Brewing Company Winter Cheers We’re very excited to try Winter Cheers. We wanted to pick this up as part of our loot but we already had our bunch set. Victory is known (in our eyes) for making delicious beers and we are …
Day 17: Tröegs Brewing Mad Elf Tröegs’s(‘ss’sss’s’s) Mad Elf is one of those beers that’s always talked about around the holidays. Besides the local Cleveland favorites, I’d say it’s one of the more popular Christmas beers. I think it’s largely due to two factors: it’s …
Day 16: Columbus Brewing Co. Citra Noel Columbus Brewing brews one of our favorite IPAs, Bodhi. The name is an amazing Patrick Swayze reference, along with Dalton, their session IPA. They’ve won a couple of Great American Beer Festival awards (one for Bodhi) and they …