Many breweries produce specialty brews near the winter solstice each year. Here is a pretty good list of holiday beers that you might want to be on the lookout for. The excerpt below is of the ones I've actually tasted at least once.

Brewed in North AmericaAbita Christmas Ale - Louisiana
Anchor "Our Special Ale" - California
Avery Brewing Old Jubilation Ale - Colorado
Berkshire Brewing Cabin Fever Ale - Massachusetts
Bert Grant's Deep Powder Ale - Washington
Blue Ridge Snowball's Chance Winter Ale - Maryland
Boulder Igloo Ale - Colorado
Boulevard Nutcracker Ale - Missouri
Breckenridge Christmas Ale - Colorado
Catamount Wassail - Vermont
Concord Brewing Northwoods Ale - Massachusetts
Crooked River Yuletide Ale - Ohio
Deschutes Jubelale - Oregon
Dogwood Winter Ale - Georgia
Dominion Winter Brew - Virginia
Flying Fish Grand Cru Winter Reserve - New Jersey
Full Sail Wassail - Oregon
Goose Island Christmas Ale - Chicago
Great Lakes Christmas Ale - Ohio
Harpoon Winter Warmer - Massachusetts(note: had one last night)
Highland Brewing Cold Mountain Winter Ale - North Carolina(great beer available in Asheville, NC)
Leavenworth Snowblind Winter Warmer - Washington
Magic Hat Feast of Fools - Vermont
Mendocino Yuletide Porter - California
New Belgium Frambozen - Colorado
Otter Creek - A Winters Ale - Vermont
Pete's Winter Brew - Texas
Pyramid Snow Cap - Washington
Redhook Winterhook - Washington
Rogue-Santa's Private Reserve - Oregon
Rogue-Yellow Snow - Oregon
Saint Arnold Christmas Ale - Texas
Saint Arnold Winter Stout - Texas
Samuel Adams Old Fezziwig - Massachusetts
Samuel Adams Winter Lager - Massachusetts
Shiner Winter Ale - Texas
Sierra Nevada Celebration - California
Stoudt's Holiday Reserve - Pennsylvania
Tabernash-Left Hand XXXmas Ale - Colorado
Troegs Mad Elf - Pennsylvania
Troegs Oatmeal Stout - Pennsylvania
Weeping Radish Christmas Double Bock - North Carolina
Wild Goose Snow Goose - Maryland
Woodstock Ichabod Crane Holiday Beer - New York

Imported into North AmericaAas Jubel - Norway
Abbaye des Rocs Special Noel - Belgium
Corsendonk Christmas Ale - Belgium
Delerium Noel - Belgium
De Dolle Winter Nacht - Belgium
Fantome de Noel - Belgium
Fantome Winter - Belgium
Fuller's Old Winter Ale - England
Fuller's Vintage Ale - England
Harvey's Christmas Ale - England
Samichlaus - Austria(coming in around 14% alcohol, this is a good sipping by the open fire beer)
Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome - England
Scaldis Noel - Belgium
Young's Winter Warmer - England

That list is scarily long. What's worse is that it's bound to lengthen this holiday season.

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