Advent 2024 Day 19 is a favorite of ours, the pastry sour. Mortalis Echidna is a fruited smoothie sour blending coconut, mango, kiwi, banana and pineapple. It's a total fruit smoothie with a 7% AVB. Mortalis does great pastry sours and this really hits the spot.

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Advent 2024 Day 18 has us celler diving. We go waaaaaaaaaay back in time to find a classic beer. This Greene King Strong Suffolk Vintage Ale is from 2007. At only 6% ABV, should it really have been cellared so long? We had to find out. In 2013, this beer was renamed to Strong Suffolk Dark Ale. It might be the oldest beer we've ever reviewed.

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Advent 2024 Day 17 brings us another Oberoende beer. This time from Nyköping Brewing Co. Oberoende Rököl is a smoked beer made with beachwood smoked malts, Munich malts and dehusked black malk. Then they add some Magnum hops. The result is a lightly smoked easy drinking smoked beer. 

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Advent 2024 Day 16 features a blond.  Vreta kloster Bryggeri is one of the many participants in the independent brewery releases. There are around 30 beers released so far. Oberoende belgisk blond is a 6.6% ABV Belgian blonde. They are really great at deep diving into traditional Belgian styles. We always look forward to their releases. 

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Advent 2024 Day 15 is from NYC. Evil Twin NYC has released Walking Down the Streets of NYC with a Christmas Tree Is Completely Normal. This is a NEIPA coming in at 6.5%. It's double dry-hopped with citry and galaxy hops. The result is a very drinkable NEIPA that won't look out of place when you're walking down the streets of NYC with a Christmas tree.

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Advent 2024 Day 14 takes us to Belgium and the amazing Cantillion gueuze. Kriek 100 Lambic Bio 2020 is a cherry lambic. At 4 years old, it's still really strong. The great things about Cantillion lambics is that they really start coming to life around 5 years. We're at a good spot but this could use a couple more years.

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Advent 2024 Day 13 keeps us in Sweden with Nääs Barley Wine 2024. This is part of their 10 year celebration and just in time for Christmas. We're glad to celebrate with them. It's a very traditional barley wine the keeps the style without adjunct or barrel aging. 

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Advent 2024 Day 12 comes from Swedish brewery Brewhuslan. Bloody is a red ale. This calendar is bringing us lots of different styles. We weren't sure what to expect but the can art really hooked us. 

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It wouldn't be an Advent Calendar if we didn't feature a beer from the brewery that started it all. Day 11 is To Ol 365 Day of Darkness 2023. This dopplebock was aged in calvados and cognac barrels. We're really excited about this and we'll always feature a To Ol beer in the calendar.

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Advent 2024 Day 10 brings us Weldwerks Brewing German Chocolate Cake. We've had a very few milk stouts on the show over the years. Largely because there aren't a lot of milk stouts out there. Weldworks Brewing made milk stout with pecans, coconut, dark chocolate, milk sugar and vanilla. It takes a boring 5.5% ABV beer and jacks it up a few notches. 

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