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Beers to Try in Each Season

06/03/2021

Beer, Beverages

Beer, Beverages

Tána Rulková

Beers to Try This Season

Do you consider yourself a beer connoisseur, a taste-tester, a draft-lover or a self-proclaimed admirer of ale? Do you savor the smooth sensation of a crisp lager, the aromatic zest of a hoppy pale ale, or the rich creaminess of a stout? Then you are in the right place! When it comes to fantastic flavor, nothing can satisfy you and your customers more than quality craft beer, and the best brews are the ones that are specifically created to complement respective seasons throughout the year.

A new trend is taking hold of the adult beverage world: seasonal beers styled specifically to emulate winter, spring, summer, or fall.

What is a Seasonal Beer?

A beer can be considered seasonal because of the lightness or darkness of its structure, the incorporation of seasonal flavors, or the suitability of pairing with particular foods. Looking for seasonal beers to try this year? We’ll recommend the best.

Summer Seasonal Beers to Try in 2021

Summer is finally here, and the world is beginning to return to normal, just in time for those warmer months. With the transition to warmer weather, it’s also time to switch up over from those hoppy beers we enjoyed in the Spring to lighter Summer style brews! Summer beer styles are the lightest and fruitiest of all seasons. They’re the perfect accompaniment to those warm beach days and time spent outside soaking up the sun. We’ve compiled a list of the best beers to try this summer below. Cheers!

Here are 13 of the best seasonal beers to try in Summer 2021:

Sour/Gose

Key Lime Pie Gose — Westbrook Brewing Co.
Blood Orange Gose — Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Tart ‘n Juicy — Epic Brewing Co.
Rocket Pop Summer Sour — Barn Town Brewing

IPAs

Summer Street — Trillium Brewing Company
Fresh Haze IPA — Deschutes Brewery
Sip of Sunshine — Lawson’s Finest Liquids
Tropic Haze — Silver City Brewery

Wheat

Akari Shogun — Half Acre Beer Company
Sommer Fling — Smartmouth Brewing Co.
Unfiltered Wheat Beer — Boulevard Brewing Co.

Pale Ales

Stone Fruit Summer Ale — Propeller Brewing Company
Fleur de Houblon (Summer Ale) — Brewery Ommegang
Summer Ale— Fremont Brewing

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Spring Seasonal Beers to Try in 2021

Spring brings new life and a new beginnings, and hopefully by the end of this Spring we will be able to go out to bars and self-pour taprooms again, but if not you can still enjoy a cold one from home! Whether you are drinking an IPA, a Hefeweizen, a Saison, or a Fruit beer, beer lovers can experiment and try out some new styles this Spring.

These are 13 Spring beers are perfect for enhancing an evening with friends and family outdoors, or for a night staying in with your trusty computer screen as you binge watch all your favorite TV shows. These beers are readily available at local stores such as Whole Foods, so we encourage you to go out, and find some of the brews on this list that are available near you. Cheers!

Here are 13 of the best seasonal beers to try in Spring 2021:

IPAs

King JJJuliusss — Tree House Brewing Company
Bye Felicia! — Evil Genius Beer Company
Torpedo Extra IPA — Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

wheat ales

Spring Wheat — Brightside Aleworks
Wheatermelon — Odd Side Ales
320 Citra Wheat — Alesatian Brewing Co.

fruit beers

Purple Haze — Abita Brewing Company
Briney Melon Gose — Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Petite Sour Passion Fruit — Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project
Kentucky Rickhouse Series No. 1 — Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co.

Saisons

Tank 7 — Boulevard Brewing Co.
Sofie — Goose Island Beer Co.
Apex Predator — Off Color Brewing

Winter Seasonal Beers to Try in 2021

It’s getting colder outside and the best way to help get you through those the frigid, snowy weathered months is to find some new favorite darker, heavier-bodied beers. They are the perfect way to warm you up and are a nostalgic reminder of past holiday seasons spent sipping delicious brewskis with family and friends.

This year we have compiled a list of the top winter styled Wheats, IPAs, Stouts, and of course, Winter Ales for this holiday season. We promise you will not be disappointed!

Here are 14 of the best seasonal beers to try in Winter 2021:

Lagers

Samuel Adams Winter Lager — Boston Beer Company
Brooklyn Winter Lager — Brooklyn Brewery

Wheats

Samuel Adams Cold Snap —Boston Beer Company
Ramstein Winter Wheat — High Point Brewing Company
Winter Cheers — Victory Brewing Company

IPAs

Celebration Fresh Hop IPA — Sierra Nevada
GoneAway — Half Acre Beer Company
Double Red IPA — AleSmith Brewing Company

Stouts

Stone Xocoveza —Stone Brewing
Winter Grind — Mother’s Brewing Company
Winter Warlock Oatmeal Stout — Bristol Brewing Company

Winter Ales

Jubelale — Deschutes Brewery
Old Man Winter Ale — Southern Tier Brewing Company
Brrr Seasonal Ale — Widmer Brothers Brewing

Fall Seasonal Beers to Try in 2020

The air is brisk, the foliage is changing, we spend our weekends watching football, picking apples, and carving pumpkins: Fall is here! Autumn brews have flavor profiles that mirror the seasonal smells and ingredients that we typically associate with these fall months. Check out the list below to see the best beers to try this season, from spiced and brown ales to IPAs and stouts, there’s something for everyone. Cheers!

Here are 14 of the best seasonal beers to try in Fall 2020:

Brown Ales

Autumnus — Tioga-Sequoia Brewing Co.
Beartooth — Fourpure Brewing Co.
Autumn Ale — Breckenridge Brewery

IPAs

Hipster Repellant — Falls City Beer
Dagger Falls — Sockeye Brewing
Newark State of Mind — Autumn Arch Beer Project

Spiced Ales

Fall Hornin’ —Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Pumpkin Beer — O’Fallon Brewery
Pinchy Jeek Barl Ale — Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Pumking — Southern Tier Brewing
Punkucinno — Elysian Brewing

Stouts

Fall — Maine Beer Company
Warlock — Southern Tier Brewing
Black O’ Lantern — Wasatch Brewery

Summer Seasonal Beers to Try in 2020