The 12 Beers of Christmas, or Getting Through Your Family Reunion

December is back in full effect and that means the holiday season is upon us. In the midst of all the long family reunions, the hectic gift giving, the secretive gift returning, and navigating through streets of snow, we will undoubtedly run out of energy far too soon and this will without a doubt result in our eating way too much.... ham? Roast beef? Chinese food? Gingerbread? I just realized I'm not quite sure what a traditional Christmas meal is supposed to be.

According to Will Ferrell, the traditional meal is diabetes. 

Well, regardless of what you may find yourself feasting on later this month, you will most definitely find yourself in need of a tasty beverage to wash it down with. A tasty alcoholic beverage, perhaps? Fortunately for everybody involved, a winter seasonal beer is the best kind of seasonal beer. Winter beers are usually very malt and spice heavy and are crammed with flavor and body, in contrast to their warm weather counterparts, which tend to be citrusy and light. Most importantly, however, is that the majority of these beers tend to clock in at about 7-10% abv, significantly higher than your average domestic lager. More flavor and more alcohol? Shut up and take my money..

If Rappers Were Ballers. NBA Ballers.

This first post will be a testament to the envisioned loose, random and unorganized nature of this blog. Originally, the plan was to kick things off with a subject I know well and hold near and dear to my heart, and whose birthday happens to be December 4th: Jay-Z. More specifically, I was going to attempt a definitive ranking of Jay-Z's discography. But as always, writing ADD kicked in and I ended up scrapping that idea for a later date. Here's how far I got into the original intro paragraph for the intended article: