7. Station 33 Firehouse Red

Brewer:  North Country Brewing
Location:  Slippery Rock, PA
Style:  Irish Red Ale
ABV:  5.5%
BA Rating: 78

Gotta represent the local brewery.  If you've never made the trip up to Slippery Rock to drink and eat at the North Country Brewery, you need to get up there.  They also have home-made root beer and cream soda for non-beer drinkers.

Website:  Firehouse Red

6. Celebration Ale

Brewer:  Sierra Nevada Brewing Co,
Location:  Chico, CA
Style:  American IPA
ABV:  6.8%
BA Rating:  93

Wow that's a pretty bottle.  Just looking at this bottle makes me feel happy.  You can see the 2014 at the top means they specially make it each year.  It pours a beautiful red-gold color that's slightly cloudy.   I'm not usually a fan of IPAs, but I tried this one a few years ago and it changed my mind.

Overall, I love this beer.  It is one of the best IPAs I've had and I can't wait to have it again.  I give this one a 5/5, and I will probably include it in the calendar every year.

Website: Sierra Nevada

5. Guinness Blonde

Brewery:  Guinness, Ltd.
Location:  Dublin, Ireland
Style:  American Lager
ABV:  5.0%
BA Rating: 74

New beer from Guinness!  I love Guinness, I'll drink it all night, so when they announced this I was intrigued.  It just came out, so I wanted to put it in the calendar so all of you lovely people could give it a try.

Website:  Guinness Blonde

4. Saugatuck Neapolitan Milk Stout

Brewery:  Saugatuck Brewing Company
Location:  Douglas, Michigan
Style:  Milk/Sweet Stout
ABV:  6.0%
BA Rating:  88

This is one of the beers I am most excited about!  I also had this on draft at my favorite restaurant (Magic Tree), and I had to travel all of the way back up to Boardman, OH to get the cases of it for the calendar.  The Magic Tree's sister restaurant Vintage Estates had just what I needed, and I got a six pack for the road too!

Website:  Neapolitan Milk Stout

3. Franziskaner Weissbier

Brewer:  Spaten-Franziskaner-Brau
Location:  Munich, Germany
Style:  Hefeweizen
ABV:  5.0%
BA Rating:  89

Website (in German?):  Spaten

2. Bell's Winter White

Brewer: Bell's Brewery, Inc.

Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan

Style: Witbier

ABV: 5.0%

BA Rating: 83

This beer got it's spot in the calendar by request from my buddy Bryant.  If you participated last year, you'll remember the homebrew from the 21st, that was Bryant's.  I've got to run out and get some groceries, so I'll have my review up later.  I just wanted to put this up to stop the heckling.

Website: Bell's Brewery, Inc.

1. O'Fallon Pumpkin Beer

Brewer: O'Fallon Brewery
Location: O'Fallon, Missouri
Style: Pumpkin Ale
ABV: 5.6%
Beer Advocate: 83

Welcome to Day 1!  While Thanksgiving is still fresh on everyone's mind (and in everyone's fridge) we can enjoy this brew along with some leftovers!  I specifically chose this pumpkin ale because I had it on draft at my favorite restauant (The Magic Tree).  I always like to put a pumpkin beer in the #1 spot, and when I drank it, I had to have it for the calendar.

Unfortunately, I accidentally froze mine... I wanted to cool it down quickly so I could post about it, and I forgot.  It didn't blow up, I just have to thaw it out.

Website: O'Fallon Beers