Beer Radar

Trying to keep up with winter beers can be a bit of a task. At left is Shipyard’s Winter Ale, which had been brewed since 2000. This year the Portland, Maine, brewery discontinued the beer (an ESB), and relabeled its excellent Prelude Ale (middle and right) as its official winter beer.

I think.

Shipyard’s website says it’s also still brewing Longfellow Winter Ale, a porter which I’ve never seen down here in Philly. I’m guessing they need two different winter beers just to make it to spring up there in Maine.

In any case, I’m a huge fan of Prelude, a nutty, warming English-style winter warmer. Prelude takes its name, by the way, from an annual Christmas celebration in Kennebunkport, Maine.

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