Craft Brewing Company recently released its Oh, Christmas Tree Triple IPA, which they say tastes like Christmas – in beer form, of course. Valley News/Jeff Pack photo
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 a