If mulled wine was really that good, wouldn't we drink it all year round? Because you know what we do drink all year round? Beer. In our opinion, and lots of other totally-non-biased people's, beer is the best thing to put with food. The flavours are more varied, the taste more balanced, the carbonation cleansing and the alcohol more manageable. We'll go even deeper and say that this saison with your roast dinner will beat any wine hands down. Christmas beer doesn't just me

If you like your beers bitter, hoppy, and crisp, the family of pale ales is the place to go. Curious what makes a pale ale pale? Or an India pale ale distinct? You can think of these beers as a spectrum with more mild pale ales on one end and aggressively-hopped double IPAs on the other. There is a lot of variation within the spectrum and an exception to every rule, of course, but you can follow this as a general rule of thumb. • Pale Ales - So called because they are brewed