Buying gifts for craft beer lovers can be tricky business. If you buy them beer, will they like it? And do you even have access to the rare and unique beers craft beer lovers tend to covet?
Here are eight great sure-fire gifts every craft beer lover will appreciate.
A Subscription To Firestone Walker’s Exclusive 2025 Brewmaster’s Collective
Firestone Walker Brewing is one of the most respected breweries in California. At $399, Firestone Walker’s Brewmaster’s Collective represents the ultimate gift for beer lovers. The Collective subscription features four seasonal collections, including 21 small-batch barrel-aged beers and four extremely limited beers crafted at Firestone Walker’s R&D brewery in Venice, California along with other benefits such as VIP taproom access and discounts. Brewmster’s Collective membership can be purchased here.
Boston Beer Company’s Our American Dream Cookbook
The Our American Dream Cookbook features recipes from 80 small business owners who have been part of the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream, the revolutionary philanthropic program.
Boston Beer Company
The Brewing The American Dream program is supported by Boston Beer Company, makers of Samuel Adams beer, Truly hard seltzer, Twisted Tea, Angry Orchard Cider and Dogfish Head. The program has provided over $107 million of loans to American food and beverage companies, coached over 15,000 entrepreneurs and helped create over 11,500 jobs, according to Boston Beer Company.
Authored by Jennifer Glanville Love, brewer and director of partnerships at the Boston Beer Company, the Our American Dream Cookbook brings together the recipes of 80 small business owners who have been part of the program. The cookbook can be purchase online for $27.90 or from your favorite book retailer.
Hand-Blown Pretentious Glassware
Beer glasses from Pretentious Glass Co. are hand-blown and designed to enhance different beer styles.
Matthew Cummings
Because most beer lovers have a collection of the same shapes and sizes of beer glasses as everyone else, hand-blown beer glasses from Pretentious Glass Co. really stand out. The glasses are made in Tennessee by a brewery, so they know how to make glasses perfect for every beer style. The online store also features hand-blown tree ornaments and other decorative items. Individual glasses start at $49 while sets range from $120 to $250. Order Pretentious Glass direct from the shop.
Modern Lager Beer Book
“Modern Lager Beer” covers everything from traditional lager brewing techniques and new lager beer styles.
Brewers Association
Beer lovers always want more knowledge about their passion. Brewers Publications is the publishing arm of the Brewers Association, the trade association representing America’s small and independent breweries, and regularly publishes books aimed directly at beer lovers. One of the latest is Modern Lager Beer, authored by Jack Hendler and Joe Connolly. Hendler is founder and co-owner of Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts and Connolly is the sales director there. Order Modern Lager Beer for only $24.99 from the Brewers Publications website.
Membership In The American Homebrewers Association
A membership in the American Homebrewers Association provides access to only homebrewing information, a subscription to Zymurgy magazine and discounts at homebrewing shops.
Brewers Association
The American Homebrewers Association is also a division of the Brewers Association. Membership includes online access to online resources such as beer recipes and seminar recordings, a subsciption to Zymurgy Magazine, access to events such as the National Homebrew Competition and savings at over 2,000 breweries, restaurants, retailers and homebrew supply shops. Memberships start as low as $49 for one year, but a lifetime membership can be purchased for $700.
Pinter Homebrewing Kit
The Pinter allows you to make beer at home by simply adding water to a beer kit.
Pinter
Pinter is an innovative all-in-one homebrewing system, perfect for people who want to brew their own beer, without the hassle. To make beer using the Pinter, you simply add water to a brewing pack, wait between seven and ten days and put the entire device into the refrigerator. The beer brews and carbonates in the device and makes 1.5 gallons of beer at a time. Additional beer packs—in many styles, and even cider and seltzer—can be purchased individually or through a subscription service. Pinter costs $149 with beer packs ranging from $30 to $35. Pinter can be purchased online.
A This Week In Rauchbier Hat, For The Niche Beer Lover
The Rauchbier baseball cap is the best way to declare a passion for German smoked beer.
John Holl
This Week In Rauchbier started as an April Fool’s episode of the Drink Beer, Think Beer Podcast. But people who love rauchbier, a traditional German style of beer made from smoked malt, loved the episode. This Week In Rauchbier now has a loyal following and people wearing the hat at beer festivals and other events become instant friends. If you know, you know.
The This Week In Rauchbier hat can be purchased from the All About Beer website for $25.
A Belgian Beer Me! Beer Tour
A tour enjoys beers at Brasserie Fantome on the Belgian Beer Me! Ardennes Mountain Beer Tour of Belgium
Stu Stuart
Belgian Beer Me! was founded in 2007. They now offer tours not only of Belgium, but elsewhere in Europe and even parts of America. Tours are usually geographically themed, but some are themed around types of beer. There’s a tour to please every beer lover, the most popular of which is the Lonely Monks Trappist Tour with three departures each year.
Tours host between six and 24 people and prices vary, depending on location and duration. Not only is everything arranged for tour clients, but the Belgian Beer Me! team is often able to arrange behind-the-scenes access to breweries that other tourists don’t have access to. Book a tour through the Belgian Beer Me! website.