Crosby's Kitchen & CocktailBeer

Brewed straight from the heart, from us to you. A White Christmas is our gift to our local fans - old and new - this holiday season, and it's going to be the happiest since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny freakin Kaye. A crisp wheat beer brewed in the Belgian tradition and spiced with coriander and orange peel, White Christmas will put the "win" in your winder and warm you up with a pleasant reminder of summer. And in the spirit of giving, White Christmas is honored to be the officially licensed beer of the Warren Haynes Christmas Jam, with proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity. Jam on.

At JW Lees, we love Christmas, and cannot wait to get into the festive spirit. For us, Christmas starts at the beginning of December with ‘Plum Pudding Day’, when we dedicate a whole day to our favourite festive beer and celebrate the coming of the Christmas season. Our popular cask ale is full of flavour, and, with plenty of fruity plum - it’s Christmas in a glass. A harmony of Styrian Goldings hops, combined with the flavour of ripe fruit, delivers a delicious taste of candied plum; and a blend of pale ale and crystal malt gives it an intense auburn colour.

Even the meanest Scrooge will find their Christmas Spirit after a glass of Whitstable Brewery’s new Yuletide Ale! Crystal Malt gives this Red Ale a warmth and depth of flavor perfectly suited to the Festive season while an All-English hop blend led by the powerful Admiral and celebrated East Kent Goldings varieties rounds off this beer with spices, marmalade, and a balanced bitterness. When you see its crimson-tinged amber color and smell its wonderful aroma, you’ll be reminded of nothing so much as roaring fires, ruddy cheeks, and plenty of Festive Cheer!

Skip the milk and cookies this year and give Santa one of these instead. This brew is exciting! Described as a coffee/chocolate/mint, it will leave you pondering if it was even possible. Brewed with the holidays in mind, this Stout has a chocolate taste with coffee undertones and a finish of mint. Hopped with pure cocoa from West Africa, you will be welcomed by an aroma of chocolate that will make you wonder what's coming next. Santa better watch out!

"Christmas-Verhaeghe" is a beer of a higher category and is brewed with water, malt, hops and yeast. The stamwort content of the "Christmas-Verhaeghe" is at 17 Hl ° Plato. The light burned malts give the deep golden blond color. The spicy hops the fresh bitter taste. After the brewing process the beer is fermented for a first time during 14 days. During the second lagering the beer gets a fuller taste. These lagering takes an end when an alcohol percentage of 7.2% ABV is reached.

“Christmastime was brewed to share in front of the fireplace with your friends and family,” commented Larry Bell, President and Founder of Bell’s Brewery, Inc. …It just might give you the sisu you need to get through the holidays and the U.P.’s long cold winter.”

Traditional in style yet extraordinary in flavor, this kolsch drinks amazingly clean and finishes refreshingly crisp. This is the kind of beer you wish you grew up with.

English-style old ale aged in Bourbon barrels for twelve months

English-style old ale aged in Bourbon barrels for six months

A malty “steamboat” lager that balances toasty caramel flavors with woody, minty Northern Brewer hops. Named after the maritime device invented by a Jackson family ancestor!

A beer for the shifting seasons. Days are shorter, skin is hidden and black beers are here. Like fur between your legs, this roasty, silk charmer is your ticket to seasonal embrace. A specialty brew. Grab it when you see it. 6% ABV.

Belgian Dubbel with deep notes of dark fruit and just enough bitterness to achieve balance. Uses our house Belgian Ardennes yeast.

Toasted, caramel, nutty malt flavors are balanced by a floral, earthy hop character with subtle notes of apricot and pear in this ruby red, medium bodied ESB.

The design of this beer was intended to bring something from each brewery that the other has never done before! This is a smoked doppelbock to be aged in neutral oak barrels until the fall. A lager fermentation was carried out using Chuckanut Bavarian II yeast and barrel-aging from Hales. This beer will be dark brown to mahogany in color, with smoky/campfire notes and an aroma of caramel and brown sugar. The malts used in this beer were Weyeremann Rauch (smoke) malt, Heildelberg pilsner, Weyeremann munich II, crystal 40, and pale chocolate. The beer was then hopped with Bravo, Czech Saaz and Tahoma. It's likely to finish at just over 8% ABV, and the maturation in barrels will continue to develop and polish the flavor of this beer. The body is expected to thin slightly, and the smoke aroma/flavor will develop into an umami meatiness, like the rounded flavor of top notch charcuterie. The barrels should contribute little-to-no flavor but will aid in the overall character of this beer. Expect this to be malt/yeast driven, having enough hop bitterness to balance any remaining malt sweetness. Overall, a very balanced, example of a traditional doppelbock made by two excellent breweries.