{"id":3087,"date":"2019-10-15T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2021-07-07T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T19:12:14","slug":"beyond-the-bottle-the-last-day-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-the-bottle-the-last-day-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: The Last Day of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bruery<\/a>The Rare Beer Club has long been a supporter of The Bruery\u2019s 12 Days of Christmas series, offering each release to RBC members dating as far back as 2009 with Two Turtle Doves, a Belgian-style dark ale brewed with cocoa nibs and toasted pecans. I\u2019ve been working as the club\u2019s newsletter writer for the latter half of the run\u2014from 7 Swans-A-Swimming in 2014 to the present\u2014and each release has combined the concept of Belgian brewers doing stronger, occasionally spiced dark beers for the holiday season with the annually rotating prompt from that 12 Days of Christmas song. 2 Turtle Doves riffed on \u2018turtle\u2019 candy. 3 French Hens used French oak barrels. 5 Golden Rings went a bit out-there\u201411.5% golden ale, with spices and pineapple. 8 Maids-a-Milking was an imperial milk stout\u2026 but fermented with Belgian yeast.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s release of 12 Drummers Drumming marks the final release of the series, after 11 years of annual Belgian-style holiday beers, starting with Partridge in a Pear Tree. It\u2019s worth taking just a moment to consider the series in context: it\u2019s one of the first major (let\u2019s call it) higher-concept series of annual one-off releases riffing on a core theme I can recall in craft beer, following in the SoCal footsteps of stuff like Stone\u2019s Vertical Epic Series (02.02.02 to 12.12.12). Both are impressively ambitious projects, each taking over a decade to complete, and it\u2019s especially neat that The Bruery\u2019s started theirs in 2008\u2014the same year they opened.<\/p>\n

So, what other large-scale brewery release series am I totally overlooking? (The Lost Abbey\u2019s Ultimate Boxed Set from 2012 comes to mind, though those 12 one-off beers were released monthly\u2026) Also: have you been cellaring any of the 12 Days of Christmas series to pop with this year\u2019s final release? Let us know on Twitter via @RareBeerClub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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