2021 Beer Geek Holiday Gift Guide
Shopping for the beer geek in your life? Even if that someone is you, we have a guide for that. As we do every year, we have rounded-up a list of fun, useful, eccentric, sometimes kitschy, and often nerdy, selection of beer related gift ideas that start at $5 and run to $175. Just about all of them are available to order online and ship to your home well before Christmas.
This is gift guide one of three, with our beer books guide coming up and that to be followed by the homebrewers gear guide.
Cheapest to priciest items in descending order)
All your favorite pastry hungry woodland creatures come out to play in an adult coloring book from Portland’s Great Notion Brewing. Just don’t feel obligated to stay inside the lines because Great Notion certainly doesn’t with their culinary inspired sweet and sour confectionary beers.
Heady Topper IPA HOT SAUCE $10.95
The world famous original NE-style IPA from Vermont’s The Alchemist Brewing is available as a hot sauce from Montpelier, VT’s Butterfly Bakery. This medium heat hot sauce is made with actual Heady Topper IPA and green jalapeños that will deliver you to hop sauce heaven.
Pennsylvania’s famous Tröegs Brewing has an ongoing collaboration with Caputo Brothers Creamery in which they turn all sorts of their great craft beers into equally tasty cheeses. These range from cocoa beers to IPA’s and holiday/winter spiced beer and cheeses, in wedges, blocks and even curds. Best of all, you don’t have to be in Pennsylvania to get them because they can ship just about anywhere in the country, and if you are indecisive you can try the sampler cheese pack.
Avengers Mjolnir Hammer and Thanos Infinity Gauntlet Bottle Openers $13.99
Be like the Avengers, smash that beer bottle with Thor’s hammer or Thanos infinity gauntlet glove with this 2-pack pair of keychain zink alloy bottle openers that make for great stocking stuffers https://amzn.to/3nZsoo8
Stone Xocoveza Tres Leche Coffee $20
Stone Brewing’s fan-favorite Mexican-style Hot Cocoa inspired beer Xocoveza has recently been tweaked with Tres Leches! In launching this limited time seasonal version of the beer they teamed up with NuZee Coffee to make a Xocoveza Tres Leches inspired coffee roast using single origin Mexico Dark Roast 100% Arabica Coffee beans. Get a 12oz bag now and have it shipped direct while it’s still available this winter!
Portland Beer Trail Playing Cards $20
Recently updated, this deck of cards serves as a fun self-guided brewery tour of Portland that features new and current taprooms and classics. Illustrated by Portland artist Aaron Trotter and sketched on location while drinking beers, each deck of cards has a map corresponding index, and random beer facts. The Portland beer deck has been newly updated for 2021 and added Hammer and Stitch, Grains of Wrath, Great Notion, Baerlic, Ex Novo, and Zoiglhaus Brewing to the collection.
Sierra Nevada Celebration Beanie $20
Celebrate the hop harvest even during the cold winter weather with this pom beanie featuring the new design/branding for Sierra Nevada Brewing’s classic winter seasonal Celebrate IPA 100% Acrylic. One size fits most.
Moonstruck Chocolates West Coast Brewery Collection $21
Portland local Moonstruck Chocolate makes all kinds of fun craft chocolates that celebrate and ackowledge our pacific northwest culture. For this crowd pleasing collection of truffles they teamed up with fan-favorite breweries from Oregon, California and Washington and used some of their signature beers in creating hoppy, sweet, rich bottle cap shaped and logo emblazoned chocolates in a 9-piece collection. The set features Breakside Brewery’s True Gold Golden Ale in a white chocolate, Pike Brewing’s Monk’s Uncle Tripel Ale in a dark chocolate, and Sierra Nevada’s Hazy Little Thing IPA in milk chocolate.
Star Wars Pint Glass Set $34.99
Gotta love this classic designs illustrative look to some of everyone’s favorite Star Wars characters in this 4-glass 16oz pint glass set featuring original trilogy favorites Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C3-P0 as well as the new trilogy’s rolling droid BB-8. This set comes in a full color window retail box that is ideal for display for collectors.
Hoppy Holidays Ugly Christmas Sweater $49.99
Everybody loves a good ugly sweater, especially when you can give a wink and nod to Santa and your love of craft beer. This long sleeve pullover knit sweater will keep you cozy and comes in a variety of sizes for wear around the home, holiday gatherings, or the beer bar.
Pacific City Pint Glass featuring Haystack Rock $48
Pelican Brewig teamed up with North Drink supply to make a hand-blown custom 16oz pint glass with a custom 3D mold of the famous Haystack Rock in Pacific City at the Oregon coast. This is a truly premium glass that anyone would be proud to pour their favorite beverage into and it looks especially cool when it catches some color and light to really show show off the unique geologic features of that iconic coastal landmark.
It’s like a brief case for your beer, a closed cell foam insulated and semi-rigid case engineered to insulate your drinks and keep them safe and snug without clanking or breakage. The Portable Beer Cooler Bag may seem expensive at first, but the convenience of safety in packing your bottles or cans for checked luggage or taking them out on trips can not be understated. These backpack friendly cases will keep your drinks cold for up to 5 hours without any extra cooling and the material easily wipes clean after.
Wall Mounted Craft Beer Marquee Sign $59.99
A mini vintage-inspired marquee-style sign that makes for great wall decor and lights up with signage visible on both sides. This off-the-wall sign comes with four LED lights and one replacement bulb powered by two AA batteries (no ugly wires) and has two keyhole slots on the back that make for an easy installation and wall mounting. Makes for a great eye catching piece for any space.
Westward American Single Malt Stout Cask Whiskey $82.95 $89.95
Portland based Westward Whiskey specializes in single-malts that begin with a very craft beer inspired brewing process. Inspired by Oregon’s brewing culture and legacy, this special version of their single-malt grew out of the distillery’s longstanding cask-trading tradition among a select group of beer producers in the Northwest. Westward trades their freshly-emptied barrels with brewers around the Northwest, who have then aged their Stout beers in them before returning back to the distillery. Beginning with the Westward American Single Malt, this limited Stout Cask Whiskey is aged for one year in those returned stout casks and picks some of that unique malty and toasted roasted barley character and kiss of hops while still being smooth as all get out. Bottled at 46% ABV / 92 proof
Ex Novo Brewing is releasing their 2021 versions of Kill the Sun barrel-aged Imperial Stout. This year there are three variants including the classic, a French Toast inspired iteration, a Chocolate/Coconut/Almond, and a Gingerbread. But if you really want to go all out you get the Kill The Sun ‘21 Gift Box:
One of each of all 3 Kill The Sun Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout Variants
Two 11oz Kill The Sun Teku glasses (Available ONLY with Gift Box purchase. Cannot be purchased separately)
Kill The Sun Deck of Cards
Deschutes / Brooks : Beer Running Shoe $130
Beyond sports stores and road races to explore the special bond between beer drinkers and runners in the “Run Hoppy Collection.” To launch this series Brooks is teaming up with Deschutes Brewery for a limited-edition branded “beer shoe” that celebrates the two brands connection to their hoppy homeland of the Pacific Northwest.
BruMate BackTap $174.99
Forget hiking in to your favorite camping spot, wilderness getaway, or secret beach with an unwieldy cooler full of cans when you can strap a draft beer or lightweight mobile cooler to your back! That’s the sales pitch for BruMate’s new BackTap product which is basically a backpack made specifically for beer, wine, cider or seltzer but it can pour liquid right out of a tap or simply hold bottles or cans.