St Bernardus is a legendary trappist brewery. On day 3 we got St. Bernardus Christmas Ale. It's an interesting mix between a jule ol and a bottle conditioned trappist ale. However...there might have been something wrong with our bottle. It had a weird slightly sour taste. It does not bode well for our box of beers.

Day 4 give us another Belgian beer. We're starting to see the theme of the box emerging. De Ranke is a great Belgian brewery. XX Bitter is a solid offer from them. It will be interesting to see what the mystery box offers next.

Do you like beer? Do you like sugar? Then day 3 has the beer for you. Lindemans Cassis is a sugar bomb of a drink. It's hard to call it a beer as it tastes like a cup of sugar dissolved in tangy water. It's a diabetic coma in a glass.

Day 2 of the Advent Calendar brings us a classic recipe from Dutch brewers Jopen. Hoppenbier is a classic recipe from the 1800's that was rediscovered. It's a light hoppy golden ale that we wish we could get on a regular basis.

We've tried two brewery advent calendars. This year we're going to give a store featured box a try. Kihoskh is a great bottle shop in Copenhagen and we're super excited to see how they craft an advent calendar. Day 1 is a beer from Mikkeller called Jule Ol. Only fitting that the first beer of an advent calendar would be a Christmas beer.

Those Christmas bells mean only one thing, it's time for our third annual Christmas beer episode. Once again we select a fine collection of Christmas beers from Systembolaget. This years collection redefines what a Christmas beer can be. First off is Billdale Brewery Billdale Vinternatt IPA, then we have two selections from Spike Brewery Mr and Mrs, that's followed by Mohawk Blizzard and followed up by Aass Juleol. It's a lot of beers and fine kickoff to the advent calendar that starts on December 1st.

Stefan was flying home the other day and decided to stop by the Mikkeller bar in the airport in Copenhagen on the way out. Not only do they have an amazing selection of taps but you can get cans and bottles to take home. He picked up one of the Oregon fruit series called Crooked Moon Hazy IIPA with Raspberry. It's a delicious double ipa with raspberries. That's followed with an amazing stout called George. It's one of the best stouts we've tried in a long time.

We start off with a triple dry hopped Farmhouse IPA made with brettanomyces cultivated from a pear tree grown just outside Copenhagen. Next is a collab beer with Pohjala make with 5 varieties of apple from Denmark and 5 varieties of apples Estonia, treated 10 different ways and aged in Calvados barrels. Lastly we try the Troffeler, a barrel-age saison collab with Wild Beer Co made with white spring Tuscany Truffles and sage.

Finally, it's just us. Stefan and Mathias are out at Mathias' new place enjoying the new recording area. First up we jump into a rye IPA from Phoenix brewery Wren House. It's a wonderful example of the style and reaffirms it as one of our favorite beer styles. That's followed by another entry into ToOl's Maelk series, Maelk Shake. It's an intense imperial milk stout that is flavored with vanilla and matured on rum barrel chips.

Chantra joins us with a beer a she brought back from the US from Two Metre Tall, a brewery from Tasmania. This is great since we're joined by Winson, our Kiwi buddy from New Zealand. He puts a shrimp on the barbie and tells us about life in Hobbiton. It's followed up by the All-In Beer festival from Omnipollo, All In Brewing and Poppels Bryggeri called Kokostopp, a bourbon barrel aged toasted coconut, cocoa nibs and vanilla imperial stout. Plus, what beer and music would you pick for a beer rock opera?