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Short week, short question, short answers.

Nice work, David:

“I’m planning on a bottle of The Bruery Autumn Maple. Should pair with everything from roasted turkey to candied yams and pecan pie!”

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all. See you back here bright and early on Monday.

We are, we’ll happily admit, a tad excited for Thanksgiving. But can the holiday get any better?

Yes, yes it can. Sean Paxton, The Homebrew Chef, offers up some great recipes including Beer Brined Turkey and Roasted Garlic IPA Mash Potatoes on his Web site. The instructions are simple, elegant, and, best of all, involve beer. Lots of beer. If, for some crazy reason, you weren’t excited about Thanksgiving, you will be now.

Plus, you already know what to drink with your T-Giving meal.

We asked you for your favorite Thanksgiving beer for a reason: Brews are a great, cheap way to lubricate your Turkey Day. Forget wine; it’s too hard to pair with the many flavors on the crammed table.

“The strong flavors and spices of a Thanksgiving dinner can distort the flavors of the wine,” Freetail Brewing Co., brewer Jason Davis told MySALife.com. “Beer may have roasted or caramelized flavors that match well with similar flavors in food. The effervescence of beer refreshes the palate for the next course.”

You don’t hear that being said about box-o-wine now do you?

THANKSGIVING! Is it the best holiday of the year? Quite possibly. We haven’t really met a single person who doesn’t like the yearly Thursday gorge-fest. But it does raise a question: What’s the appropriate beer to pair with delicious turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and the rest?

Well, that’s where you come in. Tell us what you think. Email us, Tweet at us, or leave your thoughts in the comments. And enjoy, you know?