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The holidays are ON and we’re continuing to highlight some of the season’s more interesting craft beer gift ideas. This year we’ve so many suggestions for you that we’ve been running these things almost daily. So welcome to the next in our ongoing series of Holiday Gift Guides. And if you haven’t already checked out Part I, Part II or Part III – that’s on you.
The Ultimate Hop-Head’s “Beer of the Month” Club
There are a lot of worthy beer clubs out there – but we’ve not come across one yet so committed to those hop-heads among us – until now.
A new division of The Microbrewed Beer of the Month Club, (a terrific operation), The Hop-Heads Beer Club is an unapologetic celebration of “hop-centricity” in all its forms and the perfect gift for that hop-head (and you know who they are!) on your list.
Here’s what your hophead will receive as a club member…
- Twelve, 12 oz. hand-crafted hoppy beers each month from both U.S. craft microbreweries and International breweries. You’ll get four bottles or cans of three different hop-centric beers.
- A variety of hoppy beer styles, including IPAs, Double IPAs, Session IPAs, IPLs, Imperial IPLs, Session IPLs, hoppy Pale and Red Ales, and other well-hopped styles.
- Our Monthly Newsletter with detailed tasting notes, beer profiles, brewery histories, and suggested food pairings
Don’t judge the hop-head….celebrate them…and a membership to the Hop-Heads Beer Club is the perfect way to do that.
Personalized Craft Beer Labels and Coasters
Seems like everyone’s getting on the “brew your own” bandwagon lately so maybe it’s time that that homebrewer of yours had personally beer labels and coasters that looked as professional as what’s in the bottle.
Evermine is a Portland, Oregon-based company that has a well-earned international reputation for doing these kinds of things and we can’t recommend these people highly enough.
You can choose from a wide variety of pre-designed labels (they even do bottle collar labels!), or you can personalize the label designs using your own text, fonts and photos.
Homebrew Self-Bottling Kit
We’ve already made all kinds of suggestions for that homebrewer on your list…but here’s an addition to the brewmasters arsenal they might not yet have that’s guaranteed to please.
Offered up at uncommongoods (an awesome artisan products site by the way), the Craft a Brew Bottling Kit includes everything you’ll need to bottle up your brews just like a professional brewery.
An Italian-made capper makes it a cinch to cap the ten bottles included. And with the additional caps provided will allow you to bottle plenty more rounds.
Assembled in Orlando, Florida, you can choose from the Deluxe Kit, which includes 10 bottles, or just reuse bottles you already have with the Standard Kit.
A beer is only as good as its freshness…Ensure that his (or hers) home-brewed creations stay that way with this affordable home bottling kit
