For Breweries Across the Country, Holiday Releases Mean More Than Christmas | VinePair

Christmas-themed beers prance across release calendars, trampling competition like snow beneath reindeers’ hooves. But America isn’t one nation under Kris Kringle, indivisible, with Great Lakes Christmas Ale for all. As the country’s craft breweries grow increasingly diverse, so do the beers toasting to a broader range of wintertime holidays. For VinePair, I look at the broadening world of holiday beer.