Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA graced our year-round lineup for a few years before its retirement in 2015. Since then, nearly every single day, we receive multiple emails, phone calls and social media comments from diehard fans of this hoppy and dark delicacy, pleading, begging and sometimes demanding us to bring it back. (Seriously, we tried to add them all up and it was easily into the thousands.)
Because you can’t keep a great beer permanently retired, it’s made a few cameo appearances in our Stone Mixed Packs as well as on draft at our Tap Rooms and Bistros over the years. But now it’s back nationwide on its own in all its glory. Original recipe. Original artwork.
Flavor: Dark and milk chocolate, orange, raspberry, pine resin, tropical fruit, with hints of coffee
Palate: Medium body with solid bitterness and a nice drying character on the finish
Appearance: Black with reddish hue, light tan head and lively foam with good lacing
Aroma: Coffee, black currant, chocolate, piney, citrus, tropical fruit
Anchor Christmas Ale - Merry Christmas & Happy New Year - Our Special Ale
Our annual Christmas Ale is a subtly spiced and sumptuously smooth winter warmer. This year’s brew marks the 44th annual release of this Anchor holiday tradition.
Back in 1975, Anchor released the first holiday beer in America since Prohibition. Year after year, Anchor creates a new, secret recipe with a unique hand drawn label for their Christmas Ale, but the intent with each brew remains the same: joy for the changing seasons and celebration of the newness of life. With a heavily guarded, confidential recipe, Christmas Ale is sold only from early November to mid-January. This highly anticipated seasonal delight is complex and full in flavor, packed with toasty cocoa notes, roasted malts and strong aromas of resinous pine.
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La Christmas Ale es una cerveza de invierno que elabora cada año desde 1975 la firma de San Francisco con una receta y una etiqueta diferente en la que siempre destaca un ejemplar de conífera.
Cerveza de color marrón oscuro, con aromas dulces y afrutados. En boca también se notan gustos dulzones de caramelo y frutales. Una cerveza de buena carbonatación, poco amarga y cuerpo medio.
Evil Twin Christmas Eve At A New York City Hotel Room
November 2011