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With the holidays just around the corner, we thought it might be a good time to highlight some of this season’s more interesting gift ideas for the craft beer lover on your list. So we turned to our American Craft Beer correspondents for suggestions and we got so many great ideas back that we were forced to divide our guide into two parts this year. If you missed our first installment, you should check it out; it’s got lots of fun ideas – Holiday Guide Part 1
Now on to Part 2 of this year’s Holiday Shopping Guide …..And, oh yeah, HO, HO, HO!
Bailey Wiegel is our Pittsburgh /Eastern Great Lakes Correspondent. She’s a little tornado of craft beeriness so we weren’t surprised when she also came back to us with all kinds of ideas. They all come from this website called uncommon goods and it’s an online marketplace that offers creatively designed, high-quality merchandise at affordable prices.
Her first suggestion is a Wooden 6-Pack Beer Tote and it’s a stylish answer to transporting your mismatched six-pack of your craft beer favorites! She also likes this handbook called Toasted which is described as “The civilized (and uncivilized) guide to raising your glass.” Her final suggestion is the Beer Tasting Tool Kit. It gives you everything you need to host blind tasting tests at home and is a perfect way to teach a “newbie” the nuances of craft beer.
Blake Winchell is our Gulf Coast Correspondent and he’s based in Baton Rouge. Blake suggested The Bräuler which is described as the world’s first stainless steel modular growler system (whew!) The Bräuler claims to” keep your beer fresher, colder, and longer.” (We’re good with that.) It also “fills quickly and easily without spilling or waste.” (We’re good with that too!)
And while we’re talking growlers, DC Steve, our Mid-Atlantic Correspondent, is all about Growler on Board. Growler on Board BTU is a beer transportation unit that’s designed specifically with spill & damage free transportation in mind. No more worrying about having your growlers rolling around in your backseat, floor, or trunk! BTUs hold your growler and its contents in an upright position, eliminating the chance of them colliding or breaking. No more using cardboard boxes, baby seats, towels, or whatever else you find to secure your growlers for the drive home.
Lindsay Snyder is our Madison, Wisconsin correspondent and keeps coming back to us with dynamite holiday gift ideas. This time she pointed towards this appropriately named site called Fab which features designer products at great prices. She was all about this beer poster she saw there. More Varieties of Beer is a 24×36 beautifully designed print by Pop Chart Lab that lists the entire major styles of beer and how they relate to one another – very cool!
Did you miss part one? No prob! Check it out here.
