Kirk Madeiros isn’t a very good gift
giver. Or is he?As the story goes, he gifted his son a
spruce tree for the yard at his house, but less than a year later,
the owner of Craft Brewing Company was back to take half of the tree
away.However, it was for a good cause –
the brewery recently released its Oh, Christmas Tree Triple IPA.“We took half the branches from it
and we put it in the boil to get the piney-ness,” Madeiros said.
“Cinnamon, vanilla, peppermint, juniper berry – it’s all in it,
but when you drink it, it tastes like Christmas. It makes you want to
put a Christmas tree and do decorations.”The concoction was created by Craft
Brewing Co.’s brewmaster, Jacob Mitchell.“Last year when he told me about it,
I said, ‘It’s a triple IPA an
