Day 22 of the Advent Calendar is from one of the few Swedish breweries we had this month. Jämmerdalen is from Kalix, which is practically Finnish. Nameless Mist is a fruity lemon and orange farmhouse saison. After a string of stouts and barleywines, a zesty hopped mixed culture saison is a nice treat as we enter the final days.

Day 21 of the To Ol Advent Calendar is a German pilsner called Genau Das! It's exactly what you would expect. It's a smooth easy drinking pilsner that goes down quick.

Day 21 of the Advent Calendar is another barleywine. How did that happen? Who cares when it's a 5 year-old barleywine. Old Guardian has mellowed and aged beautifully. This bottle from 2014 came from the depths of Mathias' cellar. It's another cellar surprise to make this one of the best advent calendars of all time. Also, who knew we liked barleywine so much.

Day 20 of the To Ol Advent Calendar is a fruity IPA filled with lots of tropical fruits: Apricot, Guave, Mango, Passionfruit and Papaya. It's a true garden of flavors. We've enjoyed this beer many times over the years and it's still a fun fruity beer. It's nice to revisit a classic. To Ol is making it harder to live in these cold grey days.

Day 20 of the Advent Calendar is another coffee beer. I know...yet another coffee beer. You don't realize how many coffee beers there are until you put a beer calendar together. Siren Craft Brew is doing a whole series of coffee beers based on different coffee types. The series are pale ales, stouts, ipas, sours and more. Project Barista: Irish is a wee heavy with bourbon barrel-ageing Brazilian coffee beans. It's an interesting take on an Irish coffee.

Day 19 of the To Ol Advent Calendar has us taking a coffee break.  Gose to Sonderjysk Kaffebord is a gose with coffee, vanilla and powdered sugar. It's an interesting mix of flavors that somehow really works. Now a bit about the name. Sonderjysk is Danish for Southern Jutland and Kaffebord is a traditional coffee table set with 21 different cakes and coffee. This beer definitely captures that spirit.

Day 19 of the Advent Calendar is showing some love, some Boat Love. Mikkeller's Boat Love is a fun gose that came out this summer. It's a collaboration with Timm Vladimirs Bryghus. We enjoyed it earlier this year and it's nice to get to revisit this one for the show. This dry-hopped gose has just a hint of coriander.

Day 18 of the To Ol Advent Calendar is another session ale. 3xMas is a triple dry hopped IPA with amarillo, simcoe & Mosaic. This is not the 2019 edition. This is the 4.8% abv edition. The 2019 is 4.7%. It's not a huge difference but it's interesting to note.

Day 18 of the Advent Calendar is from Gueuzerie Tilquin. It's another one of our favorite gueuze producers. Oude Mûre Tilquin à l'Ancienne is a lambic using blackberries. This lambic blends 1, 2, and 3 year old gueuze with fresh and frozen blackberries. The result is a funky blackberry sensation. This calendar just keeps getting better and better.

Day 17 of the To Ol Advent Calendar is a heavy beer. To Ol makes a few different series of beers and the 1 Ton of... series is 1 ton of fruit per 1000 ml of beer. This one is 1 Ton of...Pomegranate. It's a weird fruit to do a ton of. While I love pomegranate, I couldn't describe the flavor. How do you translate a somewhat non-descript fruit flavor to a beer? Who knows...but there is a ton of it.