December 9, 2025

244/4725) Home:  Autopop - Shirley Temple by Blood Brothers of Ontario:  ****1/2; 4% Session Sour with Pomegranate and Oranges; with wheat, pomegranate, orange juice and natural flavours; opaque, dark gold; nose of cherries, ever so mild hint of tartness and oranges; more like a cocktail, or perhaps a soda, than a beer; tastes of cherry, pomegranate and orange; very unusual;

Day 8

245/4726) Home:  Shipwreck Coast by Firebrand Brewing of England:  ***; 4% Amber ale; Celeia, Styrian Golding and Columbus hops; with wheat but the gluten has been removed; amber; nose is sweet and malty with mildly earthy hop notes; tastes malty and mildly sweet;

Day 9 of the Advent calendar which is to say I am caught up, for now.  

About that calendar:

This year's theme is award winning beers.  Plenty of international beers but, pointedly, no American beers.