Holiday time and beer, for those that dont know a lot of breweries push out "holiday" or "christmas" beers this time of year. Often these are spiced beers but for a lot of Belgian breweries its just a special stronger beer. Fortunately, I found an aged St. Feuillien Noel on the selves of a local NY beer store. Also bought a new Italian beer (a bit disappointing) and another yearly christmas special. A few things came out of this,


a) I got to share these beers with my family for the holiday.

b) I really think I can cut myself off from shopping in NY. Let me explain more. This store was always my utopia, it seemed to not play by the rules when it came to commercialism. Well, without going into detail, this is no longer the situation. After shopping here I know I really dont need it and an every-other-month trip to Jersey may just suffice. Of course, some aged treats are still possibly and the store wont be cut off completely like a certain Long Island place.

c) I really live in a Christian society. Despite, the one company that obviously caters to a different market, Hebrew, hehe get it, its all Chrsitmas beer. By the way, I have a nice vertical of anniversary beers from here to crack open soon. There is more here but its really useless to continue.

Tonight I had homemade (DELICIOUS) mexican with a nice hoppy west coast beer. This is also the first time I had a beer and wanted it to be more hoppy. Man, who am I.


But despite it being Hanuakka (why, how do you spell it?)I will be basking in the glory of some nice Christmas beers in the next few days, maybe even a vertical if I am lucky enough to fit it in.



P.S. new obsessions: hopefully one day homebrewing will take over as the overarching hobby. And to tie everything together I should bottle my own spiced holiday beer sometime this week.