It’s the holiday season, so time to hop to it (see what we did there?) and figure out which festive cookies rule the roost. We know you’ve been losing sleep over this mystery, so we ranked eight classics from best to OK-but-only-’cuz-it’s-the-holidays. Best of all, we’ve paired each cookie with the brew it matches best under the mistletoe. Truth: Beer makes any cookie — even the least popular ones — tastier. It’s friendly like that.
#2: Jammy sandwich cookies + fruit-flavoured beer
These timeless, tartlike cookies are a double whammy of great taste and beautiful design. If these cookies were carollers, fruit-flavoured beers would make them hit the high notes.

#3: Macaroons + India pale ale (IPA)
Macaroons show up to the party confident in who they are — chewy and proud of their unfussy ways. Thanks to their own tropical aromas, like mango and pineapple, IPAs get where these cookies are coming from.

#4: Gingerbread + Bavarian-style wheat beer
There’s some wiggle room here. Soft gingerbread scores high. Subtly spiced, hard gingerbread? That’s a no from us, dawg. However, add a Bavarian-style wheat beer and you can offset the tangy spice and dunk that crunch into submission.

#8: Danish butter cookies + British-style ale
Sorry, Denmark, but these cookies are what you eat at Grandma’s house. Their redeeming quality is their dunkability (and that reusable tin, if we’re honest). But pair them with a British-style ale and you have the perfect marriage of sweetness and buttery goodness.
