Saint Arnold Brewing Company's Rice Village Christmas Ale Pub Crawl is morphing into a Santo Claus Crawl with Santo, and of course, Christmas Ale. There will be a total of five stops, using the "open house" method for the first four.

We will be selling tickets at all four of the first four stops for three hours so people can split up between the establishments between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. only. At 5:30 p.m., everybody will gather at one final stop, and that is where the event will award the glasses. The prize for making all four stops will be the brewery's Santo pint glass.

Designated drivers are both eligible for the award and encouraged to attend.

The first four locations include three places in the southern Morningside area but north of University, two are on the east side of the street and one on the west side (Hint: Ginger baker wood), and one place around Rice Boulevard and Kirby. At 5:30 p.m., the organizers will identify the final place in the Morningside area, perhaps a little north of the others, but still staying south of Rice Boulevard and on the east side of Morningside.