Craft beer advent calendars, foam is on fire, and cool Christmas swag

Send us Fan MailWhat's your favorite brewery?Just before we recorded this week's show VinePair dropped an article about 30 of the best breweries in America.  These "best of" lists always bring out some controversy, but we're pretty happy with the spots from Georgia that made the list.  Any of your favorites get mentioned?As the holidays approach the Costco beer advent calendar is out again.  Folks seem to love grabbing this and then complaining about it.  I'm always cautious about a dozen or so random beers, they always seem to be about 50% duds in my experience.  On the holiday note, Miller Lite continues with some interesting swag.  They recently dropped a beer nutcracker, their beernaments are back, and they've even got a neon Christmas tree that smells like a diver bar.  Crazy.In the beer drama lane, as there always seems to be plenty of that to go around, Joyride Brewing sued one of its co-founders saying he diverted over a $1M to other businesses.  This comes a few weeks after the brewery announced they were filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  Even more drama in Russia.  We've talked about Heineken's delayed withdrawal from Russia and Carlsberg was holding out even longer.  Bad move for them as Russian authorities seized the brewery and arrested some top management and accusing them of fraud.Oh yeah, the foam story... Seems that foamy things are all the rage in craft beer these days.  I kind of thought this already happened but news stories say it is happening right. now.  If you say so.WARNING!  INCOMING CHRISTMAS BEER SHOW!  Two weeks from now we'll drop our annual Interfaith Holiday Craft Beer Spectacular.  It's gonna be great.  If you can't wait then check our what we had to say last year.Beers of the WeekSierra Nevada - Celebration (Yes, again.  YOLO.)Wrecking Bar - Big Slurp Imperial IPA (Strong Beer Fest 2023 Best IPA Winner)Delirium Noel 2022Goose Island / RTJ - Golden AleTrillium - Fort Point (Pale Ale)Bells - Hopslam (DIPA with Honey)Spyglass - Key Lime Pie Sour.Thanks for listening to Beer Guys Radio!  Your hosts are Tim Dennis and Brian Hewitt with producer Nate "Mo' Mic Nate" Ellingson and occasional appearances from Becky Smalls.Subscribe to Beer Guys Radio on your favorite app: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher  | RSSFollow Beer Guys Radio: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube If you enjoy the show we'd appreciate your support on Patreon.  Patrons get cool perks like early, commercial-free episodes, swag, access to our exclusive Discord server, and more!