A Brewer's Calendar by Brian Smyth Looking for a mid-year's resolution? How about brewing more styles, or simply brewing more frequently? Here's a brewing calendar I put together to help me relax and enjoy homebrew next year. I was inspired to do so after seeing a copy of A Year of Beer, a book of 260 seasonal beers, compiled by Amahl Turczyn of AOB (available at Amazon.com). Zymurgy also did a similar calendar in their spring 1993 issue ("For Every Season There is a Beer" by Ray Daniels).

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Brew	Style	HBA Suggestion	Drink-Serve
January	Maibock	What in the Helles Bock	Memorial Day
February	Pilsener	Bounced Pay Czech Pilsner	summer, baseball season
March	Marzenbier	Crimson Oktoberfest	Octoberfest, football season
April	California Common	Maytag Man California Common	Fourth of July
May	West Coast Pale Ale	High Sierra Pale Ale	summer, baseball season
June	India Pale Ale	Caravan India Pale Ale	summer, baseball season
July	Wheat	Honey Wheat Ale	Labor Day
August	Belgian Strong	Tripple XXX Belgian Ale	Halloween, Thanksgiving
September	Munich Dunkel	Sedylmayr Munich Dunkel	winter, football bowls
October	Christmas Ale	St. Nick's Holiday Ale	Christmas season
November	Doppelbock	Bav' Haus Bock + 1 lb DME added	spring 2000
December	Stout	Fireside Dry Stout	St. Patrick's Day
January 2000	Barleywine	Big Ben Barleywine	2001

Click on the HBA Suggestion for a description of the beer!