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Beers to Try in Each Season

09/08/2022

Beer, Beverages

Tána Rulková

Seasonal Beers to Try This Year

Do you consider yourself a beer connoisseur, a taste-tester, a draft-lover, or a self-proclaimed admirer of ales? 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. The best brews are the ones 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 it with particular foods. Are you looking for seasonal beers to try this year? We’ll recommend the best.

Top Seasonal Beers to Try This Fall

Fall is finally here! The changing foliage, the crisp cool air, the weekends spent watching football, carving pumpkins and apple picking! Autumn brews have flavor profiles that mimic seasonal tastes and smells of these wonderful fall months. Whether it be pumpkin beer or a chocolatey coffee malt, there is something for everyone. This year, several outstanding pumpkin ales are standing out to beer-lovers, which you’ll find listed below. You’ll also find a list of nitros and ciders if pumpkin beer isn’t your thing! Happy Drinking!

Here are 13 of the best seasonal beers & Ciders to try in Fall 2022:

Ales

Punkin Ale – Dogfish Head Brewery
Night Owl Pumpkin Ale – Elysian Brewing Company
Roadsmary’s Baby – Two Roads Brewing Company
Voodoo Ranger Atomic Pumpkin Spicy Release – New Belgium Brewing Company
Pumpkin Patch Ale – Rogue Ales
Pumpkin Ale – Whole Hog Brewery
Pumpkin Down – Ballast Point Brewing Company
Imperial Pumpkin Ale – Weyerbacher Brewing Company

Nitro

Pumpkin Spice Latte Nitro – Left Hand Brewing
Pumpkin Spice Latte – Breckenridge Brewery

Ciders

Red Apple Bombshell (Fall Spice) – War Horse Brewing Company
Pumpkin Blend – Downeast Cider House
Revel with Maple & Fall Spices – Wild Hare Hard Cider

Top Seasonal Beers to Try This Summer

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 12 of the best seasonal beers to try in Summer 2022:

Sour Beers

Sorry Chicky – Burley Oak Brewing Company
Festina Pêche – Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Summertrip – Braxton Brewing Company
Sour Summer Haze – Talking Cursive Brewery

Blonde Ales

Blood Orange Blonde Ale – Haymarket Beer Company
Marylan DDH W/ Mosaic & Galaxy – RAR Brewing
Bean Flicker – Odd Side Ales

Wheat Ales

Hell or High Water Watermelon Wheat – 21st Amendment Brewery
Summer Bliss – New Belgium Brewing Company
Tangerine Wheat – Lost Coast Brewery

IPAs

Summer Love – Victory Brewing Company
A Street – Trillium Brewing Company

Top Seasonal Beers to Try This Spring

It’s slowly but surely getting warmer outside which means it’s the start of the new hop season. Spring brews have all the fresh hops to create a lighter, crisper, and delightfully bitter beer compared to the resiny hops used in the autumn and winter brews. They are the perfect way to enjoy the warmth of the sun and the smell of the blooming flowers while spending time sipping delicious brewskis with family and friends.

This year we have compiled a list of 15 of the top spring-styled Fruit Beers, Saisons, Blonde Ales, and IPAs for this season. If you’re taking a break from alcohol right now we even added a couple of non-alcoholic beers. We promise you will not be disappointed!

Here are 15 of the best seasonal beers to try in Spring 2022:

Fruit Beers

Samuel Smith’s Organic Apricot Fruit Beer – Melbourn Bros’ All Saints Brewery
SPF – Goose Island Beer Co.
Frootwood – Founders Brewing Co.
Flamingo Fruit Fight – Bell’s Brewery

Non Alcoholic Beers

Samuel Adams Just The Haze – Boston Beer Company
Juicy IPA – Untitled Art

Top Seasonal Beers to Try This Winter

It’s getting colder outside and the best way to help get you through those frigid, snowy months is to discover some new favorite darker, heavier-bodied beers. They are the perfect way to warm up during the chilly days 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 Stouts, Porters, Ales, and IPAs for this holiday season!

Here are 14 of the best seasonal beers to try in Winter 2022:

Stouts

Breakfast Stout – Founders Brewing Co.
Kentucky Coffee Barrel Stout – Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co.
Elbow Patches – The Virginia Beer Company
Barrel Aged Imperial German Chocolate Cupcake Stout – Angry Chair Brewing

Winter Ales

Christmas Ale – Great Lakes Brewing Co.
12 Dogs of Christmas – Thirsty Dog Brewing Company
2XMAS – Southern Tier Brewing Company
Cinnamon Coconut B-Bomb – Fremont Brewing

Porters

Shake Chocolate Porter – Boulder Beer
Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Peppermint Porter – Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co.
Mocha Marlin Porter – Ballast Point Brewing Company

IPAs

Accumulation Winter Hazy IPA – New Belgium Brewing Company
Lowlander Winter I.P.A. – Lowlander Beer
Winter IPA – Faction Brewing

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Top Seasonal Beers to Try This Fall

Here are 15 of the best seasonal beers to try in Fall 2022:

IPAs

(No) Pumpkin — Sloop Brewing Co.
Double Pumpkin Spice Latte — Tired Hands Brewing Company
Wendy Coffee Pumpkin Milkshake IPA — Central Waters Brewing

Stouts

Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Stout — Broken Compass Brewery
Fall — Maine Beer Company
Dark O’ The Moon Pumpkin Stout — Elysian Brewing Company
Breakfast Stout — Founders Brewing Co.
Dragon’s Milk — New Holland Brewing

Brown Ales

Nut Brown Ale — AleSmith Brewing Company
Maduro Brown Ale — Cigar City Brewing
Katrina Brown — Scarlet Lane Brewing Co.
Palo Santo Marron — Dogfish Head Brewery

Porters

Trick or Treat — Evil Genius Beer Company
Imperial Pumpkin Pie Porter — Terrapin Beer Co.
Double Pumpkin Porter — Four Peaks Brewing Company

Summer Seasonal Beers to Try in 2021

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

Spring Seasonal Beers to Try in 2022

Here are 13 of the best seasonal beers to try in Spring 2022:

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 2022

Here are 14 of the best seasonal beers to try in Winter 2022:

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

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

Here are 11 of the best seasonal beers to try in Summer 2020:

Fruit/Sour

Rübæus — Founders Brewing Co.
Peach Dodo — Rhinegeist Brewery
Dark Swan Sour Ale — Lagunitas

Kolsch

Outlier — Tree House Brewing
Kenny’s Kolsch — Alchemist
Thrash Punk Coffee Kolsch — Witch’s Hat Brewing Co.
Cucumber Kolsch — High Water

Pale Ales

Brooklyn Summer Ale — Brooklyn Brewery
Summer Lager — Schlafly Beer
Dale’s Pale Ale — Oskar Blues Brewery
Pale Ale — Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

Spring Seasonal Beers to Try in 2020

Here Are 9 of the Best Seasonal Beers to Try in Spring 2020:

Pilsners

Sour Monkey — Victory Brewing Company
Scrimshaw — North Coast Brewing Co.

Wheat Ales

Allagash White — Allagash Brewing Company
Witbier Blanche — Hoegaarden
Hoppy Wheat Ale — Schlafly Beer

IPas

First Cut —Tröegs Independent Brewing
60-Minute IPA — Dogfish Head
Sculpin IPA — Ballast Point Brewing
All-Day IPA — Founders Brewing Co.

WINTER SEASONAL BEERS TO TRY IN 2020

Here Are 11 of the Best Seasonal Beers to Try in Winter 2020:

Stouts

Old Rasputin Imperial Stout — North Coast Brewing Co.
Yeti Imperial Stout — Great Divide Brewing Co.
El Gordo Imperial Stout — Good People Brewing Company
The Rusty Nail Barrel-Aged Imperial — Fremont Brewing

Porters

Everett Porter — Hill Farmstead Brewery
Last Snow — Funky Buddha Brewery
Holiday Porter 2019 — Samuel Adams
Founders Porter — Founders Brewing Co.

Doppelbocks

Demonstrator Doppelbock — Haymarket Brewery
Troegenator Doppelbock — Troegs Independent Brewing
Celebrator — Ayinger Privatbrauerei

Fall Seasonal Beers to try in 2019

Here Are 13 of the Best Seasonal Beers to Try in Fall 2019:

Spiced Ales

Autumn Ale — Breckenridge Brewery
Pumpking — Southern Tier Brewing Co.
Pumpkin Ale — Schlafly Beer
Rumpkin — Avery Brewing Co.

Oktoberfest Marzens

Sam Adams Octoberfest — Samuel Adams Beer
Lager Town — Half Acre Beer Co.
Oackkatzlschwoaf — Urban Chestnut Brewing Co.

Brown Ales

Nut Brown — Ithaca Beer Co.
Double Hazelnut Brown — Dry Dock Brewing Co.
Brekle’s Brown — Anchor Brewing

Red Ales

Zoe — Maine Beer Co.
Tocobaga — Cigar City Brewing
Blazing World — Modern Times Beer

Summer Seasonal Beers to try in 2019

Here Are 10 of the Best Seasonal Beers to Try in Summer 2019:

IPAs

Bodem — Half Acre Beer Company
Elvis Juice — BrewDog
Hazy Little Thing — Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

Wheat Beers

Sun Crusher — Revolution Brewing
Samuel Adams Summer Ale — Samuel Adams Boston Brewery

Pale Ales

Daisy Cutter Pale Ale —Half Acre Beer Company
Zombie Dust— 3 Floyds Brewing Co.
Whirlpool — Night Shift Brewing

Sours

Cherry Cheesecake — Other Half Brewing Co.
Pie of the Tiger — Full Circle Brewing Co.

Spring Seasonal Beers to try in 2019

Here Are 8 of the Best Seasonal Beers to Try in Spring 2019:

IPAs

Stone Go To IPA — Stone Brewing
Steady Eddie — Union Craft Brewing
Citradelic — New Belgium Brewing Company

Saisons

Allagash Saison — Allagash Brewing Company
Swing Session Saison — Victory Brewing Company
Crux Farmhouse — Crux Fermentation Project

Wheat Ales

Oberon Ale — Bell’s Beer
Gumballhead — 3 Floyds Brewing Co.

Winter Seasonal Beers to Try in 2019

Here Are 10 of the Best Seasonal Beers to Try in Winter 2019:

Stouts

Mean Old Tom — Maine Beer Company
Miles To Go Before I Sleep — Tree House Brewing Company
Rocky Road Bourbon Barrel-Aged Stout — Angry Chair Brewing

Porters

Breakfast Nook — Forager Brewing Company
Last Snow — Funky Buddha Brewery
Coconut Porter — Broken Compass Brewing
Bourbon Barrel Blackberry Porter — Kentucky Ale
Black Butte Porter — Deschutes Brewery

Winter Ales

Coffee Cinnamon B-Bomb — Fremont Brewing Company
Wintervention — Peticolas Brewing Company

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