Beer gifts for craft beer lovers

If you’re like me, you wait until the absolute last minute to find the perfect gift. In order to help expedite your decision making, I wanted to share a few options that would make a great gift for the craft beer lover in your life (or even for yourself).

Do they like Beer Mail?

While there are plenty of options out there for beer subscriptions, our favorite is definitely the Rare Beer Club. Not only do you get access to some premium craft beer in large format 750ml bottles each month, the team at the Rare Beer Club make sure you have the proper knowledge and backstory for the liquid in each bottle.

Simply put, The Rare Beer Club’s mission is to deliver the best, most inventive, and most hard-to-come-by beers out there. Founded by the late beer critic Michael Jackson, the world's leading authority on beer, The Rare Beer Club offers limited-release craft beers from both the U.S. and around the world.

In addition to getting introduced to some incredible beers, members can customize their orders to include past favorites too! It’s a win-win type of program.

Get a membership for your favorite beer-lover today: https://www.beermonthclub.com/the-rare-beer-club-join

Do they prefer to shop local?

Another easy option for beer lovers is picking one of our 30+ local breweries and supporting them! All of our local breweries offer gift cards, cans/bottles or Crowlers to go!

One example is Pikes Peak Brewing, who is selling a bottle of their Grand Peak Imperial Porter along with 2 snifters in a fancy gift box.

Check out our brewery list at https://www.focusonthe.beer/brewery-list to find the nearest spot!

Do they like it hot?

For us, if we can’t have craft beer every day, the other vice we enjoy is ridiculously tasty hot sauces. In fact, most craft beer lovers also love hot sauce. Sometimes they blow your socks off in heat, but most times, the heat is balanced with amazing flavors. If you’re looking for a yummy bottle to pair with any other beer gifts, look no further than these two hot sauce makers:

Oso Rojo

This Denver-based hot sauce maker (saucery sorcery?) makes some of our favorite sauces, and just so happens to collaborate with some of Colorado’s best breweries to boot! We currently are enjoying the Cerebral Rare Trait collab on pretty much everything.

Check out their collabs here and buy some sauce: https://www.osorojohotsauce.com/collaborations

Funky’s Hot Sauce Factory

We were turned onto this hot sauce by our good friend Jeffrey Airman. Funky’s main goal has always been to produce great tasting, well balanced sauce with loads of flavor along with the heat.  They continually deliver unique sauces that appeal to both hot sauce fanatics and those who have just begun to explore the hot sauce universe. Did we mention that some of their hot sauces are fermented???

Pick your new favorite up here: https://funkyshotsaucefactory.com/collections/all

We hope that this guide can help you find the perfect gift for the beer-lover in your life! Happy Holidays!