November beer run

I usually make a pretty substantial beer run in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, for a variety of reasons:

• to pick up a number of cases of this year’s Anchor Christmas, which has special significance for TheWife and I
• to pick up beers for Thanksgiving – whether we’re hosting or guesting, beer is usually my responsibility
• to pick up things to cellar – I like me some malty, strong fall beers, and they generally only improve with age, so this is a good time to get stuff to put down in the basement and forget about for a while.

Here’s the list of what I bought this year:

• 3 cases of the 2010 Anchor Christmas Ale
• a 6 pack of Troeg’s Mad Elf – a little high in the ABV for a session beer, but damn it’s tasty
• Great Divide’s Hibernation Ale – tasty old ale
• Victory Old Horizontal barleywine – should go into the cellar; will probably be consumed Thursday
• Duck-Rabbit barleywine – ditto
• Brew Dog Tokyo – for Thursday (“stout with cranberry” screams Turkey Day)
• Brew Dog Dogma – also for Thursday
• Ommegang Adoration – may be for Thursday, may be for the cellar
• Stone Vertical Epic 10/10 – cellar, natch; read about Stone’s Vertical Epic series to understand why
• Avery’s The Reverend quad – going to gift this to a co-worker
• Dogfish Head Squall IPA – probably also Thursday, as I don’t think I want this much ultra-hoppy IPA all by myself

I’ve also got a few other things that are already in the cellar that may get pulled out on Thursday, or possibly later on in the holiday weekend – only time will tell.

What are you planning on drinking with your holiday meal?