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There are plenty of nice winter beer options available on the market.  These are great to drink at any time of the year, but these brews are especially tasty during the cold winter months.

Rising Moon is a new Blue Moon beer with a bit of lime, specifically Kieffer lime leaves and a bit of peel, and floral brew notes.  This beer is actually called a springtime beer, but it's still technically winter here, and it's been drunk.

Hoegaarden is a great winter beer as well.  It has traditional elements like curacao orange peel and coriander, making it a tempting, yet not overly spicy brew.

 
Anchor Steam has a nice Christmas ale that has some deep ginger and all-spice flavors that go well with the brew over all. 

• Ale
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What does one do with 45 minutes or so of waiting for the satellite guy to figure out your home entertainment woes?  Grab a beer of the month selection out of the fridge.  If you're lucky enough to find a fine brew of the quality of the Domaine DuPage French Style Country Ale in your fridge, than your beer of the month investment was well worth it.  This is a great beer, very drinkable, and suited especially to our liking since it's not overly hoppy with a bitter aftertaste.  The color is a dark amber, akin to a copper color.  The beer has a nice head when poured into a pilsner glass.  The aroma is of toasty marshmellowy accents and the flavor is reminiscent of autumn and autumn foods like pumpkin and other squashes.  Slightly spicey, but only just, the experience is sweet with caramel and nutty honey as a finish.  Surfing around the net, you'll find various opinions, some complimentary, others distinctly critical, possibly overly so.  It also seems as though the beer might not have a long self-life as some complained about sourness and bitterness, which we found none of.  There were also only suggestions of citrus flavor, no sourness or acidity, but round sweet flavors that went together well.  Seemed like a late summer beverage, maybe early fall.  Great for watching the start of the EPL season.

beermonthclub.com had this to say:

Two Brothers B.C. pays keen attention to detail, from stylistic recreation of the little known Bière de Garde style (French farmhouse ale) to their label designs (notice how their brewery name is in French on the label of this beer). The name pays tribute to the Illinois county that the brewery calls home (named after the river of the same name, DuPage, after the French trader who settled there in the 18th century). Expect a nice woody, spruce-like character, with notes of straw, apples, peach and some musty yeast on the nose. The flavor progression is multifaceted and highly complex, beginning soft & lightly sweet with breaddy, caramel notes, broken by a bigger breaddy character that piques through with notes of dark cherries, and a bit of bourbon-esque alcohol flavor. This is all followed by a delicate spiciness, followed by a dry, grassy finish. Your palate is in for a wild ride with this one!

Serving Temperature: 40-48° F
Int'l Bittering Units: 24.0
Alcohol by Volume: 5.9%
Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Oversized Wine Glass
Malts: Vienna, Munich, Caramel Wheat, Caramunich, Melanoidin
Hops: Northern Brewer, Mt. Hood