3 Great Craft Beer Summer Variety Packs

Summer is ON – a time of trips to the beach and friends getting together over food and drinks. So you’re gonna need beer…And here are some great new craft beer variety packs that are making buying in bulk cool again!

Firestone Walker 25^th Anniversary Variety Pack

We can’t believe that one of our favorite breweries, Firestone Walker has been crafting serious beer for a quarter of a century now. And to celebrate this milestone they’ve released a legacy variety pack with three of their classics.

Double Barrel Ale is the first beer is the first beer that co-founders Adam Firestone and David Walker ever released and the innovative British pale ale that still stands the test of time. Today, DBA is regarded as an iconic Californian craft beer, and an enduring 5% ABV tribute to traditional cask-fermented English ales.

Union Jack is another classic (and an ACB fav). The brewery’s take on the West Coast-Style IPA, this 7% ABV India Pale Ale is both hopped to high hell yet eminently balanced.

Pivo Pils was one of the first craft beer pilsners to enter the then, sorely underserved market. Inspired by the dry-hopped Tipopils from Birrificio Italiano (a terrific Italian brewery) the 5% ABV Pilsner is crisp, uber-hoppy and ultimately refreshing.

CANarchy Mixed Pack, Hazy Edition

The CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective is a collection of craft breweries including Oskar Blues, Three Weavers, Deep Ellum, and Cigar City Brewing among others, that realizing there was competitive “strength in numbers,” combined forces in 2015. And they’ve an interesting 12-pack that celebrates the collective’s haziest offerings, some of them available nationally for the very first time…

Three Weavers Cloud City is a 6.5% ABV Hazy IPA with bright tropical aromatics and a soft, juicy mouthfeel.

Oscar Blues Thick Haze is a boldly unfiltered 7% ABV juice-bomb that may be the haziest IPA we’ve ever tried.

Deep Ellum Manic Confidence is a 6.5% ABV IPA that floods the taste receptors with a sweet a blast of Galaxy, Enigma, Comet, Strata, Citra and Idaho 7 hops.

Cigar City Fancy Papers is a 6.5% ABV double dry-hopped Hazy IPA brimming with tropical citrus and mango notes.

Ballast Point 25^th Anniversary Mix Pack

San Diego’s Ballast Point Brewing is also celebrating 25 years in the biz with a mix pack that showcases the brewery’s journey over the years.

Sculpin is the brewery’s flagship, an award-winning IPA that’s a testament to Ballast Point’s homebrewing roots. (2005)

California Kölsch is a smooth, bright 5.2% ABV refresher that is hopped like a lager but fermented like an ale. (1996)

Calico is another award-winner, a bold and complex 5.5% ABV American Amber Ale that’s brewed in the British tradition. (1996)

Big Gus is a clear, hoppy and incredibly dry India Pale Ale that is crafted to answer to  a growing condition known as Hazy IPA burnout. (2021)