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The everything-under-$60 beer lover’s gift guide

The shopping guide for every beer lover on your list.
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The other national parks felt left out when @rogueales honored Crater Lake on cans of Pendleton Pale Ale, last year's collab with @pendletonwm. So for this year's release, the brewery added Mount Rainier, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon to the lineup. Which park would you pick?
If there's a better light lager for river floats than @burialbeer's Innertube, we haven't found it yet. Flaked corn infuses the beer with a familiar adjunct flavor while German Saphir hops lend kisses of tangerine and raspberry, and the 3.5% ABV means you could drink some all day. Swap it out for your standard macro sixer and get to floatin'.
Add this word to your delicious beverages vocabulary: melomel. It's mead made with fruit, and the six here--infused with cherries, apricots, mangos and more--are just a small sample of the rainbow of flavors out there. Want to know more? Check out the link in our profile.
We have to admit, this is the first time a brewery has shipped us beer inside an old military rations box. But it was an appropriate choice: @warhorsebrewing's BARIS (it stands for Big Ass Russian Imperial Stout) is as filling as bourbon-aged stouts get. Aged in barrels for a year and released for the brewery's first anniversary, the beer slathers chocolate and caramel sauce atop raisin bread, then chases it all with a shot of earthy espresso. At 14% ABV, alcohol burn should hit you like a claymore, but both the whiskey flavor and its boozy heat are surprisingly mild.
Faster than Kid Quick and heavier than King Hippo, @noblealeworks and @fieldworkbrewingco's Punch-Out double IPA pops the nose with aromas of juiced blood orange, onion root and wheat grass, then follows up with jabs of cookie dough and ginger. Crushed wheat thins and pineapple push your palate against the ropes before a grapefruit uppercut knocks it to the mat; you might as well be Glass Joe against a beer like this.
No matter if you're pledged to House Stark, Lannister or Targaryen, @breweryommegang's newest #gameofthrones ale has you covered. Brewed with honey, the golden Belgian brew melds orange blossom honey, dandelion, lavender, pear, strawberry, almond skin and sugar cookies so well it seems they were welded together with dragon fire.
America the Brewtiful.
Ice cream? Good. Beer? Good. Ice cream made with beer? GOOOOOD. That's why tonight we're skipping dinner and going straight for these @jenisicecreams made with @stonebrewingco Mocha IPA, @rightbeecider apple cider and @yazoobrew Sue. Cold pints, indeed.

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