We hope you enjoy the beers we have put together for our 2022 Beer Advent! We have sought out new, limited and seasonal beers to share with you throughout December. We thank you for your support of our local shop and would love for you to tag us on Instagram with your favorites.

We've represented many of the best cans and bottles from our local craft beer scene, alongside some ancient, traditional brews from across the planet, and even included some new and unexpected flavors and styles as well. With an array of IPAs, a smattering of sours, some crisp clean lagers, some more obscure and nerdy lagers, plus all the roasty malty dark beers to keep you cozy this holiday season.

Cheers and Happy Holidays!

The S&L Team
David, Pamela, Jules, James, Jessica, Ashley, Kathryn, Kat, Layne, Lydia & Lindsay

OEC Noc

Oxford, CT / 5.8%

From the wildly creative minds over at Ordinem Eccentrici Coctorem in Oxford, CT (Order of the Eccentric Boilers in Latin, for those of you wondering) comes this beautiful take on an underrepresented style-- a dark Czech-style lager, or Tmavé Pivo, for those of you keeping score at home. After a venerably traditional brew, which involves cooling this beer over a large copper get-up that resembles a skeletal rack of ribs, or a Baudelot cooler (for the beer geeks out there) and an open coolship fermentation, this dark yet crisp brew undergoes a short period of oak aging, adding some more depth to the rich, roasty malt and the slight charge of earthy bittering hops. Does this beer have anything to do with the holiday season? Not explicitly! Once you taste it, however, you may not want to drink anything else for the rest of the month.

pmenschDecember 8, 2022JamesComment