What beer to give Santa?

By the end of the week, Santa will be travelling around the world, delivering gifts to good boys and girls (and hopefully some adults too – I hope he got my list).

I might be getting a little old for Christmas, but I love this time of year when the decorations come out, the Christmas themed sweets and desserts go on sale and people frantically run around trying to get gifts.

I very much want to be a father one day and experience the other side of Christmas, I hope that one day my child/ren will ask ‘what should we leave for Santa?’ because I will have the perfect answer for them.

BEER!

I hope there is some Kahlua in that milk...

Growing up, my brothers and I used to leave out a Boag’s Draught stubbie for Santa, he must love Tasmanian beer because he would leave the stubbie empty for us to find the next morning.

I do have a theory though that Santa might drink different beer around the world, if he lands in Japan he might like a Sapporo (it snows up there over Christmas, so it will still be cold once he gets to it). If he goes to Mexico he would probably like a Corona (but does he prefer a lemon or lime wedge in it?)

If Santa was coming to visit my family what should I leave out for him?

He is driving a sleigh so there is drink driving to consider, but then I don’t want to give him something that will leave a bad taste in his mouth meaning he won’t leave anything.

I wonder if he brought me the carton I wanted?

Personally, I think Santa deserves something nice for the hard work he is putting I over Christmas Eve, I would leave out a Boag’s Red (being that it matches his suit) or even a Boag’s Premium because I only get them for special occasions.

What beer do you leave for Santa, does he always drink it?

Merry Christmas,

Dave

So many beers to choose from...

Ocho Festive Peril

Santa will have earned many of these in a few days!

I have been in Peril for most of December when it has come to beer.

My plan was to find a few Christmas beers to talk about and occasionally brag about my homemade beer advent calendar.

My local stockists didn’t get the amazing brews they usually stock, so I’ve had to order some of my own (still waiting).

In the meantime, I went into Crown Cellars for maybe the twentieth time in the past month and Ocho (a local company) has come through. Brewdog have also released more of their Hoppy Christmas IPA so I scored one of them to have on Christmas Eve.

I've got one of these in the fridge!

Ironically, Ocho’s new festive beer is called Festive Peril.

Ocho is the brewery that made Papa Noel last year, one of the three beers in my very own homemade Christmas six-pack, themed after Christmas pudding.

Ocho has x3 new beers, Festive Peril is on the right

Festive Peril’s description is simply “Liquid Christmas cake, layers of rich, sweet malt, dried fruit & a hint of booze.”

To get myself into the season I cracked a cold one, and wow on first tasting it is very rich.

At 9% (2.4 standard drinks) this beer was strong in flavour and alcohol content.

It was difficult to drink, if you have a few it will probably get better, but after just one I felt just like England in the Ashes so far – hit for six.

It was a good beer to get me into the mood but this ‘Belgian Dark Strong Ale’ was too rich for my liking.

What have you got on your Christmas wish list?

I check my tree daily to see if there are any more presents, maybe some beer or even a voucher.

I wonder if I'm on the naughty or nice list?

My advent calendar is almost empty, I’ll have to update the Facebook page with what I’ve had so far (hit the like button to receive information on beer and funny things I share).

Cheers,

Dave