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From the brewer
Festivus is an easy to drink, brilliant copper holiday pale ale brewed with orange peels, northwest cranberries, galangal root, and a melange of festive spices, that should wrap you in the warmth of a snowed in winter hearth.
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2025 release
Yet another aspect of these spices, in this case there's a fruity-tartness that opens and subverts most of the perfumey overtones that this beer has suffered from in the past. What it does do is make it very cola-like, spice-forward; ginger, cinnamon?
2019 release
Biscoff cookies, OJ and prunes. The JUICE for my Festivus Feats of Strength.
2018 release
Hilariously, when I ordered a Festivus they brought out another Splinters, and honestly I was too far gone to realize it, other than thinking they'd really improved the Festivus. When they corrected their mistake, yeah. Pretty perfumey.
2015 release
Fantastic. Green hop and citrus smell. Great taste balance of hop pine, citrus tang, and malt sweetness.
2005 release
Pretty much an IPA with nice citrusy resinous hops flavors with a mild bitterness.
2014 release
Started off nice, but got less good with every sip. A little more caramel than I remember last year, but still plenty of weird perfume.
2013 release
Nice spiced smell, nutmeg warmth. Grapefruit-tangy body and finish with some hops providing a mild hoppy punch. But the sour tanginess middle persists and distracts from with a hop finish or the malt body.
2013 release
Citrusy and pungent on the nose, with a heavy dose of some kind of potpourri spice. After some cranberry dryness there's a nice mellow malt finish. A little too weird to really love, it was still a nice glass.