This Advent Calendar From Costco Features 24 Premium German Craft Beers

Wishing that Oktoberfest-ivities continued all the way through the holiday season? There’s an Advent calendar for that.

Thrillist reports that Costco is now selling an Advent calendar that includes 24 16.9-ounce cans of premium German beer—one to warm you up on each cold, dark December day ahead of Christmas.

You won’t likely come across these beers in your go-to supermarket; Kalea, the European craft beer distributor that creates the annual calendar, only features beers from small, privately-owned breweries across Germany. Though the specific breweries are a surprise, Kalea promises to cover all your favorite types of German beer: Pils, Helles, pale ale, stout, bock, Weizenbock, and pale and dark wheat beers.

If simply sipping on various specialty beers as you count down to Christmas is fulfilling enough for you on its own, then head to your local Costco immediately without bothering to read the next paragraph.

If, however, you’re curious to know more about the beers themselves and the talented folks who engineered them, you can scan the label on each can using Kalea’s BeerTasting app for details, reviews, and more.

You can get the Advent calendar at Costco for $60, which is quite a bit cheaper than having individual craft beers shipped to you from tiny breweries in Germany. And while this particular product might not seem as magical to the younger members of your household as you think it is, who says you can’t have more than one Advent calendar this holiday season? Go all out with this Harry Potter sock calendar from Target—and don't forget a treat-filled calendar for the cat.

[h/t Thrillist]

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