When I texted terrific daughter Elisabeth to inform her about how much dear wife Karen and I both enjoyed Good Natured Blonde to start off our fourth batch of four samplings in our Advent Beer gifts, she delivered some surprising news.
It’s a local beer, brewed in the adjacent Madison County. In Hamilton, to be specific. Actually, the Saranac Winter Lagar that followed is local, too, coming from Utica, N.Y.’s Matt’s Brewing complex. Samuel Adams Holiday White and Autocrat Coffee Milk Stout, I know not and I don’t think so. They still tasted good, though, a nice light ale and a strong coffee-tasting beer.
Onward we go. More than halfway through our 24 samplings we are as we head toward Christmas Eve. Thank you Elisabeth and George Three.
Mark Bialczak 
I know I’ve had some Saranac ales, especially their pumpkin ale, and they’re excellent. The others sound good too. I’m always up for a coffee stout. Well, almost always. Pabst has a “hard coffee” and that’s where I draw the line.
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I don’t think a hard coffee qualifies as a beer, so I’m with you, Christopher. I guess you gotta try to spread it out, PBR.
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For someone who does not drink alcohol I am overly infatuated with all of the hubbub around alcohol! 🙂
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I like how you look, smile, and stay in your lane, MBC.
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🙂
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Mark,
I think all this advent beer 🍺 🍺 has you seeing double. Two blogs a day recently.
Hope that trip to FL is going well for the family. I know others who go down around the holidays primarily to Disney World.
Have a good holiday 🌲🎁 and advent.
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Just the extra advent beers post, Gerald. Yeah my daughter and future SIL got to go to Florida and I got to get text photos back in New York to enjoy their adventures!
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How fun is this!
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We think this is a great present for sure, Nance.
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so many to sample, and so much to learn…. let the research continue ….
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I am can-and-bottle deep in the research, for sure, Beth.
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