Christmas is a special time of year ... for beer. In order to fully enjoy the season properly, it is imperative that you stock up on some of the finest Christmas Ales around. This here brew is a good place to start.

Wait a minute! This isn’t a beer! What in the blue blazes is going on round these parts? Fear not, folks. We’re just going all out turkey style in honor of the greatest holiday known to man - Thanksgiving. Read on, compatriots.

The Harpoonists are back and in full effect. The IPA was sampled again ... the flavor is delicious, the bouquet is satisfying. Rejoice. Pull up a glass. We’ve been expecting you ...

As we make our way into winter, there’s a variety of beers to keep you warm on those chilly nights. Today we review one of the best. Yes, we know it doesn’t quite match the picture.

It’s so rare and exclusive that it can only be found in the “Feast of Fools” Winter 12-pack. As far as Magic Hat goes, this is not one of their better offerings. As far as mead goes, it’s not the best. But it was free, and who turns down free beer?

Seriously. We’re going here. As part of a continuing series of mockingly reviewing beers that are notoriously of sub-standard quality, today we’re going after the crown jewel of Canadian cheap beer: Old Vienna. Plug your nose and open the throat!

You keep your bogged-down fruit out of my beer, you hear me? I ain’t into no beer with pink undertones or a fruity bouquet. Bouquet doesn’t belong in a beer. It belongs in a flower basket. Oh, you mean this beer tastes good? Oh, I see.

A thick, dark beer that’s not 72.4% alcohol? You mean I can drink multiples of this without having to freeze-dry my liver in a vat of charcoal? Well, Diddy, where do I sign up? Hint of advice: buy the Harpoon Sampler thing.

Life comes at you fast. One day, you’re in the bar ordering up a pint of a lip-smacking ale and the next you’re ... holy crap! Where did all these taps with the sunglassed orange come from? Somebody stop this thing!

Hey! This is an actual first look at the new offering from Anheuser-Busch, the great American company. The American Ale is an interesting stroll outside the box for Bud ... let’s see how they fare.

Saranac 12 Beers of Winter week rolls on with a delectable (yet, so totally not Red Hook) E.S.B. from the folks famous for ... well ... not making anything remotely close to an E.S.B.

Not to be outdone by Sam Adams, Saranac offers a winter pack sampler - and does so, remarkably, at a mere 70% of the cost. It’s a great way to say hello to several different styles of beer, and another excuse to post the brewery fire picture.

You want the toasted malt? You get the toasted malt. Talk about a beer that was tailor-made for winter, comes the beer with Winter in the name. Sam Adams’ best seasonal offering is on deck on this very happy Tuesday.

Magic Hat’s winter offering is alive and well. Cue the snowflakes and the holly, it’s time to warm up with a hoppy amber.

For those of you who were really into the Dale’s Pale Ale, (and really, after that review - how could you not be?) we have another outstanding hoppy surprise in store for you. It’s Alexander Keith ... British scholar and nobel laureate.