Melting the Ice Caps: Your Winter Warmer Choices

Gruntings and belchifications, Beer Nation! The new year is cranking right along and the “Big Chill” has finally moved elsewhere. I think it is due, in part, to the great number of folks drinking winter warmers. Right? Hey, we recently asked what winter warmer was keeping you all toasty during the long, cold, dark winter nights, and you responded.

Beer marketing folks, take notice:

Where? Answers poured in from all over the Beer Nation from places like Rochester, NY and Glendale, CA and Plymouth , MI and Greenville, SC. Folks from different parts of Oregon, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts and Texas also chimed in.

How old? 30% of you are in the 21-30 year old age group. 40% are 31-40. 20% are 41-50, and 10% are 51-60.

Top Choices: 17% are drinking Widmer Brrr and 17% are drinking Sierra Nevada Celebration. 9% say you are making Deschuttes Jubelale your winter warming device. The other 57% of you have choices spread out all over the map. There are a few who say they are not drinking any winter warmers at all. Thanks for sharing.

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Here’s a sampling from what the rest of you say you are drinking to stay warm: Custom Brewcrafters Wee Heavy, Pretty Things Babayaga, The Bruery Two Turtle Doves, Hair of the Dog Adam, Highland Brewing Cold Mountain Winter Ale, Full Moon, Saint Arnold Divine Reserve #9, Independence Brewing Imperial Oatmeal Stout, Great Divide Hibernation, New Galrus IPA, Great Lakes Christmas, 3 Floyds Alpha Klaus, Goose Island Mild Winter and on and on.

Hibernation

Whatever it is that keeps you warm, whether it’s a traditional winter warmer or not, thanks for supporting beer, and especially American craft brewing and your local breweries. And, uh, thanks for helping to get the freaking temperature above freezing (even if only for a little while).

Cheers!

Your warm and toasty, bundled up and cozy, dreaming-of Tahiti USABeerTrends Scientific Beer Survey Scientists