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$49 at Beer Drop
Best beer club if you want to pick the styles
Beer Drop
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$74 at Brewvana
Best beer club for hyperlocal offerings
Brewvana by City Brew Tours
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There’s always a good reason to crack open a nice cold, crisp beer on a cozy evening. After all, who doesn’t deserve a little treat now and then? With the winter months on the way, there are plenty of new flavors and styles at the store and at events like Oktoberfest. But enjoying all the seasonal flavors takes some planning and can get pricey if you’re unsure where to start. This is where a monthly beer club shines, letting you sample both new and nostalgic flavors without leaving the cozy comfort of your home.
But which is the best beer club to join? We tried a bunch and found the best subscription boxes out there, whether you’re into rich stouts, hoppy IPAs or cool microbrews. Whether you’re a seasoned beer connoisseur, just beginning your journey or looking for the next best thing to give a beer drinker this holiday season, these beer clubs provide a great way to explore new flavors and support independent breweries worldwide.
What is the best beer club overall? After testing five of the most popular beer of the month clubs, we’ve decided on the budget-friendly and original Craft Beer Club as the best beer subscription box for most people.
There are several dozens of options to consider when looking for a beer subscription box and they all deliver curated collections of unique craft beers to your home to taste. The best beer clubs in 2024 offer access to an ever-expanding beer-brewing universe, with unique picks including rare or limited-release beers. Read on for our picks of the best beer subscriptions for any ale enthusiast or lager lover.
Best beer club for most people: Craft Beer ClubBest beer club for IPAs and hoppy beers: The HopHeads Beer ClubBest beer club if you want to pick the styles: Beer DropBest beer club for rare beers: The Rare Beer ClubBest beer club to try unusual beers: Brewvana
Best beer clubs of 2024 The Craft Beer Club is arguably the most popular beer subscription box out there for the craft beer enthusiast and for good reason. This club sends out monthly shipments of new and interesting craft beers from around the country. Many of the new beers and craft brews have limited distribution, meaning a subscription to CBC might be your only shot at tasting those specialty offerings. It also puts a premium on fresh beer, with many of its roster of breweries making a fresh batch just before boxes go out.
The Craft Beer Club is also a more affordable beer subscription box at $48 per month plus shipping within the continental US. Each box features 12 beers: three of each beer in four different styles from two different breweries.
Pros:
One of the more budget-friendly servicesBeers that appeal to a wide range of palatesCons:
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Some of the beer subscription boxes on this list don’t leave much of the beer selection up to you, but not so with Beer Drop. This beer delivery box startup offers different plans, but with all of them, you can select your favorite type of beer and specific beer styles that go into your monthly craft beer subscription box shipments. That includes IPAs, fruit-forward beers, Belgian beer and plenty of other varieties.
Monthly drops of microbrewery offerings start at $50 per month, plus $8 for shipping and handling, for five beers and your subscription can be canceled anytime. Also notable: The Beer Drop brews are all canned, so you’ll never have to worry about a broken bottle.
Pros:
Allows you to help curate the deliveries based on your tasteSome of the more interesting beers I tried came from this clubCons:
On the expensive sideSome beers in my shipment were fairly commonIf you’re looking for outside-the-box brewing, Brewvana is the beer club for you. Brewvana, the beer subscription that’s now known as City Brew Tours, offers interesting beers from a single beer-brewing region like Des Moines, Iowa. The company’s Brews Less Traveled Beer Club highlights one new “undiscovered” beer city each month. Each shipment includes eight different beers: two beers from four breweries in whatever city is on tap that month. In my shipment highlighting Lexington, Kentucky, I got a smattering of beers ranging from the more familiar to the highly unusual — think berry cobbler sours and Kentucky bourbon barrel ales.
Brewvana members can enjoy interactive live streams and a drink-along podcast to enhance each month’s tasting. The cost is $75 per month for eight beers if you sign up for six months prepaid. For four-month subscriptions, the cost jumps to $79. And if you sign up for two months, it costs $85.
Pros:
Highlights a single beer-producing regionLots of good information includedCons:
Expensive Some of the beers were too experimental for my taste
