Shared a sixer of this with my GF...

Now I am on to this...

A classic.

The absolute best for me this time of year is Anderson Valley's Winter Solstice. Tastes like smores.

Indeed. A favorite of mine as well. I've been drinking mostly Saranac winter variety packs of late, but I think I'll have to get some of this tonight. Would totally hit the spot.

It's funny that you mentioned that beer. I have been wanting to try that for a while. I remember they had a sale of that at my work during the late summer months but I didn't trust it... Now you recommend it and it's sold out at the coop... Anyways, I'll hopefully track some of that down christmas eve.

Tonight I started off with..



first time with this... fucking flavorful porter? at 8.8 no complaints here except the negroid snowboarding... I was starting to feel buzzed on my first brew.

Now on to this...

Fucking amazing taste... It's like a more refined winterBraun but they sacrificed the tasted for ABV but at 6.7 it still goes good with the aggro frech RAC... 88!

Working on a Red Tail Ale 12'er, I like Eye of the Hawk much more but there weren't any coldies... I am thinking about taking a month off of drinking next year.

I missed out on Samuel Adams Winter Lager this year. Not so happy about that. Hopingthe local Bishop's Arms pub will have it on tap.

Sam Adams? I can get you some of that easily. I like the local beers much better than sammy adams though... Are there many american beers available in Sweden?

There are a few, but I'm sure that very many of the US beers are not available here. Alcohol here is only sold by a chain of stores controlled by the government, which has its good and its bad sides. They do carry an ok selection of different types of alcohol, and there is the possibility to order things they don't have in stock, but if it is not on their lists it will cost extra. The beer section is mostly focused on british and european beer but does have a few american ones as well. If I want to buy a decent absinthe I would have to go to Denmark or try to order it online and hope that it would make it through customs. Our government is unwilling to let others sell alcohol in stores as they are not connected to the real world, but rather cling to the the notion that if anyone could sell it EVERYONE would become an alcoholic (no joke). Also if anyone could import as much alcohol as they wanted it would have the same result, so when Sweden koined the European Union in the '90ies they made sure that the law that statef no limits on how much alcohol you could bring into the country did not apply for Sweden. The allowed amounts to bring into the country have increased slowlu during the years and is now at 10 litres of strong alcohol (vodka, whiskey etc) and 25 litres of beer. I don't drink wine so I can't remember the limits there.

The short rant..

If you like SAs I bet you would love Mendocino, Eel River and even Lost Coast...

I can send you a few bottles of these in exchange for some good books. Do you have many third reich books?