Great Lakes Christmas Ale/ 2 roads Holiday Ale

Ohio Christmas beer

 While this isn’t a cookie pairing... YET. I think a snicker doodle or some kind of cinnamon cookie

would go awesome with this fun beer.

Great Lakes Christmas Ale

Swirling cinnamon

 Our friends Jean and Lindsey visit their family in Ohio for many holidays. There they have a family

tradition of drinking some Great Lakes Brewing co Christmas Ale. This is an ale full of spice and

ginger and honey flavors for days. It’s the Christmas season all bundled together into a pint. What's

extra special about this beer, and their tradition, is you rim the pint glass as if it were a margarita, but instead of salt, you use cinnamon and sugar. If you order this beer at a pub in the Ohio area, you have to tell them you don’t want the cinnamon sugar.

 The trick is to conserve the cinnamon and sugar so you get some with every sip while still getting

enough to sweeten up every mouthful. I think it takes at least 2 pints to perfect this, at your third one you are an expert, and on your fourth you will most definitely start making some mistakes.

If you were to get your hands on an Ale that was full of cinnamon and holiday spice, that ringing your pint glass with cinnamon and sugar would be awesome. 

An awesome Connecticut beer that you can do this with is Holiday Ale made by 2 Roads Brewery. On New Years Eve 2017, I purchased a growler of this Holiday ale and rimmed some glasses with cinnamon and Sugar and it was DELICIOUS. We compared the two beers both with the ring of sugar cinnamon blend. The 2 roads was a bit more malty and already a bit sweet compared to the Great lakes brew, so we all agreed that the sugar ring complimented the Great Lakes beer a bit better. However, the 2 roads holiday ale was awesome with the ring of yummyness around our glasses.

Few things are better than a fresh growler