It’s Starting to Feel A Lot Like Late Summer
This week, summer finally arrived in Santa Rosa. Foggy mornings and evenings were replaced by record setting temperatures. This lasted for just three days. On the final day, the signal for summer to end had arrived on my doorstep: a box with a sample of 2010 Jubelale.
I don’t want this to be a bashing of Deschutes or of their calendar, but Jubelale is always the first of the holiday seasonals to hit the market. I can understand why, Christmas beers just sell well. They started the seasonal fad. They are still the most anticipated of the seasonal releases. That said, I’m not ready for Christmas, not at the mall, not on TV, and definitely not in my pint glass.
As the hops are set to come off the vine, I’m still enjoying the long evenings and late sun. I’m still in a pilsner state of mind (well, maybe an IPA state of mind with all the fog), and if any seasonal is going to excite me it will be the return on the pumpkin ales.
Deschutes, you got me thinking about it, but this goes to all the seasonal brewers out there: No Christmas in August. In fact, no Christmas in September and if you can, let’s at least wait until some snow has fallen somewhere in the United States (Alaska and tops of mountains excluded).
As for the Jubelale, I won’t be drinking that for quite some time.
2 Comments to “It’s Starting to Feel A Lot Like Late Summer”
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I totally agree. Here in Idaho, we always get Alaskan Summer Ale in about February, which is equally ridiculous.
Amen, brother. I love Christmas. Its my favorite holiday. But it loses some of the specialness when it started 4 months early…