Fall Seasonal Season!

The equinox is rapidly desending upon us and with the joys of turning leaves and crisp autumn weather we have a new batch of seasonals to sample. So, try something off the beaten path and let us know about that rare oktoberfest or rare fall seasonal that you had to break up that otherwise endless stream of millercoorsbudmolsonstella you had while watching football on Saturday and Sunday. The Sam Adams* Oktoberfest (click here for beeradvocate reviews) comes to mind as a go to seasonal from last year.

*Sam Adams should be commended for their bailout of small brewers without long term hops contracts with growers. In a market that saw the price of this dire ingredient shoot from $3-5/lb to $15-20/lb many small batch brewers who purchase supplies while they go were sure to go under. Sam held a lottery of all interested brewers (hop sharing program results) to buy so many lbs of it's stockpile of hops at cost (roughly $5/lb). Their quote from the article "hey, we were the little guy too once" says it all to me. Cheers to Sam Adams.