Winter beers are here

I know she is no more, but she was good 365 days a year:
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...%20Banshee.jpg
This pic alone brings back a flood of very fuzzy memories.

saranac 12 beers of christmas and season's best

Last week was a wonderful week for winter beer releases, the new anchor steam christmas ale came out (amazing as usual), lagunitas brown shugga (9.9% abv, and tasty at that), and anderson valley winter solstice. The problem is, whenever I see a new winter beer in the store, I have to buy it, and some of them are kinda hard on the check book at $9 a sixer. But it's all worth it to keep me warm through the winter.

Dogfish Head WorldWide Stout 2004 is out, Bottleworks has it. This years edition is around 20% ABV. I have also read that Dogfish Head is coming out with a 'micro' malt liquor. Somewhere in the 10%ABV range, and brewed very meticulously with some pretty gormet ingredients. It will only be sold in 40oz of course, and will come in a special screen printed paper bag. Before you slaves to the ghetto get pissed about people making 'micro' malt liquor, just know that it is actually a somewhat common practice in Europe. They have one wicked malt from France called Lucifer that is amazing.

AD... thats a great collection of bottles... I had a similar series of a couple different brews going, but recycled them all before I made the move cross country.

For those of you in the oh/pa/in/mi/ky region, you are lucky enough to be able to get Great Lakes Brewing Companies Christmas Ale, one of the best and truest seasonal ales around.

Damn, given the meds I'm on for knee recovery, I need to stay out of this thread until I can partake in the fun again.