Moving into a new year is certainly something worth rejoicing, and never more so than this year. To help us celebrate, our local brewers have come up with several unique, creative brews to help herald in 2021.

CraftHaus continues to be one of the Las Vegas Valley’s most creative and distinctive breweries, and head brewer Cameron Fisher has now brought us Wundernutz!, an Imperial Brown Ale with vanilla and hazelnut coffee offering a huge toasted hazelnut aroma with a vanilla tsunami and a bold, roasted coffee finish.

Former Joseph James head brewer Kyle Weniger is now a “nomad” brewer (a contract brewer who travels to a functioning brewery to produce one-off beers) going by the name of JuxtaNomad. One of his brews now pouring is Scene Kids Sour Dessert IPA with toasted coconut, macadamia nuts and graham cracker, on tap at Scenic Brewing.

Richard Lovelady at Lovelady Brewing Company continues to push the boundaries on what ingredients can work well in beer, evidenced by his 7.8 percent ABV Paleo Rex, an Imperial Porter with chocolate, peanut butter and coffee; and Sichuan Down, a 6.7 percent ABV Golden Ale with Sichuan pepper and five different Chinese hot peppers.

Dave Pascual, director of brewery operations at Big Dog’s Brewing Company, has a robust beer to help us begin the new year with: his War Dog Imperial IPA, an 8.5 percent ABV Double IPA heavily hopped with Simcoe and Amarillo. Delicious and oh so satisfying!

Head brewers Michael Key and Eddie Leal at Ellis Island Hotel & Casino have their Let’s Get Hazy, a 6.3 percent ABV New England-Style IPA with intense tropical fruity aroma and flavor, thanks to the TropiCali and New Zealand hops it’s brewed with.

Head brewer Zach Johnson at Trustworthy Brewing Co. at The Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian and The Palazzo has created a crisp, clear Mexican lager, and as the Burbank brewery location’s fourth anniversary is on Jan. 11, we can expect some of the special beers brewed for the event to make their way to Las Vegas shortly thereafter.

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