Support Local Breweries This Holiday Season

Now more than ever, it’s important to support your local brewery. Small and large breweries across the country are struggling. Sales are down, margins are tight, and too many taprooms are closing their doors. The holidays are a crucial time to show up for the places that pour our favorite beers.

Here are a few easy ways to help keep your local brewery going:

🍺 Buy beer to-go

Grab crowlers, growlers, six-packs, or cases for holiday parties and family gatherings.

🎁 Give brewery gift cards

They’re easy, flexible, and keep money flowing during the slow months.

👕 Buy merch

Hoodies, hats, glassware, and shirts make great gifts—and often have better margins than beer.

📅 Attend events

Trivia nights, holiday markets, tap takeovers, and release parties all help drive traffic.

🤝 Choose local when you go out.

Ask bars and restaurants to carry local beer—and order it when they do.

📸 Spread the word.

Share posts, leave reviews, tag the brewery, and tell friends where you’re drinking.

🍻 Join mug clubs or beer memberships.

Recurring support can make a huge difference for small operations.

🚗 Make it a destination

Instead of another big-box purchase, plan a brewery stop while running holiday errands.

Every pint matters. Every purchase helps. Support local. Drink local. Keep your breweries alive.

Cheers!!

Gnarly Barley Releasing Barrel Select #1

From Gnarly Barley:

We’re thrilled to introduce a new dimension to the Gnarly Barley lineup — one that expands beyond our hop-forward reputation and highlights our barrel-aging program. Meet Barrel Select No.1, an English-Style Barleywine aged in Bulleit Bourbon barrels. This rich, complex beer represents a perfect meld of barrel and beer, available exclusively in Louisiana. Born from our partnership with Bulleit Frontier Whiskey, Barrel Select No.1 showcases the craftsmanship and collaboration that define both our brands. We aim to hit retailers between the holidays, 1st or 2nd week of December.

Can't wait to get my hands on this one!

Parish Brewing Has 2 Releases Coming Soon

Parish Brewing has 2 releases coming out this month that look interesting:

First is Galactic Ghost. From the brewery:

Introducing Galactic Ghost - a double-haze monster from outer space that delivers out-of-this-world flavors of tropical fruit straight from an intergalactic paradise of our dreams. We loaded this cosmic creation with a generous DDH Ghost-levels of Galaxy, Citra, and Strata hops, creating layers of juicy passionfruit, ripe pineapple, and electric citrus wrapped in a smooth, resinous haze.

Think of it as DDH Ghost in the Machine's cosmic evolution - big, soft, and more tropical than the original. The Galaxy hops bring stone fruit and citrus, Citra adds that signature mango punch, and Strata rounds it out with dank, fruity complexity. Balanced and pleasantly smooth despite its size, this 8% ABV interstellar DIPA goes down easier than you'd expect. 8% ABV

Some beers are earthbound. This one? Pure intergalactic hop juice.

Galactic Ghost: $23 per 16oz 4-pack cans, no limit.

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Shop the presale for Galactic Ghost on Wednesday, December 10, at noon CDT at shop.parishbeer.com. Release day and pick-up will be in our Taproom on Friday, December 12, at 11 a.m., and UPS direct shipping will start next week. You can also find Galactic Ghost on @get.oznr for Taproom pick-up

Galactic Ghost will also be available for purchase at the brewery on Friday, December 12. It will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Second is Quindecennial. From the brewery:

Quindecennial — our cellar-aged toast to fifteen years of Parish Brewing Co.

To celebrate bringing good beer to good people since 2010, we brewed something our cellar has never produced before. We blended three- to five-year aged imperial stouts and let them rest in a carefully selected lineup of oak barrels: Blanton's bourbon, maple bourbon, Buffalo Trace, and rye whiskey finished in ex-tequila barrels.

The result is layers of rich bourbon barrel character, dark roasted malt, vanilla oak, and the slightest bite of tequila on the finish — all wrapped up in a heavy, velvety stout. This drinks like fifteen years of learning, refining, and perfecting our craft.

Fifteen years down. Grateful for every single one. Cheers to what comes next.

Quindecennial: $25 per 500ml bottle

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Shop the presale for Quindecennial & Galactic Ghost on Wednesday, December 10, at noon CDT at shop.parishbeer.com. Release day and pick-up will be in our Taproom on Friday, December 12, at 11am, and UPS direct shipping will start next week. You can also find Quindecennial & Galactic Ghost on @get.oznr for Taproom pick-up

Quindecennial & Galactic Ghost will be available for purchase at the brewery on Friday, December 12. It will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please note: If your beer is not picked up within one week of the release date, your order will be canceled. All canceled online orders will incur an 8% restocking fee.

UPS Direct Beer Shipping is available to consumers in Alaska, D.C., Kentucky, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, and Virginia, with a $20 flat-rate shipping fee for 1-6 4-packs. For more details about UPS Direct Shipping, visit parishbeer.com. 3h