This Week's Beer Labels: Smoke, Banana, Fernet, Flannel

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With the holidays looming, I thought we wouldn’t have many new labels to show you this week. Looks like I was quite wrong. We’ve got plenty, actually, including:

• Prep for Smoke-tober

• A banana slush you probably weren’t expecting

• A brewery already getting ready for St. Pat’s

• Fernet barrel-aged barleywine that you probably won’t ever get to try

• Beers with sweater and flannel shirt vibes

• …and a Blatz.

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The Illinois Beer Label Of The Week:

Put this year’s batch of Holiday Hops by the milk and cookies this year and I think Santa will be pretty cool with it. It’s rare that making any sort of IPA could be considered a “zig” where others are zagging, but there aren’t a lot of holiday-centric hazies in the world, let alone a double. Good on you, Sketchbook.