What to get me for Christmas:

Palo Santo Marron:

An unfiltered, unfettered, unprecedented brown ale aged in handmade wooden brewing vessels. The caramel and vanilla complexity unique to this beer comes from the exotic Paraguayan Palo Santo wood from which these tanks were crafted. Palo Santo means "holy tree" and it's wood has been used in South American wine-making communities.

Also, if you haven't read Burkhard Bilger's New Yorker article on extreme beer, you should check it out. Bilger situates the history of Dogfish Head brewery and its founder and Brewmeister Extraordinaire Sam Calagione within the larger context of the fascinating history of American beer, pointing out that the post-Prohibition development of mild, light domestic beers is directly linked to the sweet tooth America developed during Prohibition by getting addicted to Coca-Cola.