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Holiday Gift Ideas for Craft Beer Drinkers and HomeBrewers
Need some last minute holiday gifts? Here are some ideas for the
craft beer drinkers and homebrewers you may know. Or maybe you
want to get some of these for your self. These gift ideas range
from fairly obvious to things most would never consider or think
of. Here's the list:Gift Cards or Mug Club Memberships to a Florida Brewery
Support your local breweries and buy a gift card directly from them. It's more thoughtful than a generic Amazon gift card and will fund a fun day or night out. You might even get lucky enough for the recipient to treat you to a beer on the gift card!
A related idea, buy your friend or loved one a mug club membership if a nearby brewery offers them. 3 Keys Brewery in Bradenton, where I am a mug club member, is offering a year-end special when you pay for a year upfront (it's normally charged monthly). There are many breweries across Tampa Bay, South Florida, Central and North Florida that have mug club or other membership programs.
Unusual but functional: Baby Bottle Brushes (for cleaning specialty beer glasses)
I would've
never thought of this before I became a parent, but hear me
out, it's a great idea. Baby bottle brushes get deep into
large glasses and reach the bottoms and side far better than
you can do with your hand and a sponge. I don't like to put my
specialty craft beer glassware in the dishwasher, so this is a
gift idea (or item to by for yourself) I can personally
recommend. Having clean glassware is important, and some of
those specialty glasses are not possible to fully clean
without one of these brushes.I've included Amazon links below, but these are readily available at Target and Walmart as well.
A Must Have: Craft Beer Glassware Set
If
you follow our Instagram, then you likely already know we like
to use proper glassware. The right glass matched with the
right style of beer brings out the best in each craft brew.
This set, which I personally own and use regularly, covers a
lot of bases. IPAs, Stouts, Hefeweizens, Kolsch, Lagers, and
more are all covered. Even if you or the person you are buying
for as one or some of these glasses, they likely don't have
them all, and when you are drinking with a friend it's nice to
give them proper glassware as well. Considering getting two
sets of these.Florida Focused Gift Idea #1: Florida Bottle Cap Map
Craft beer
drinkers like to try different craft beers from all over the
state and country. Whether visiting the brewery or finding
new beers at the bottle shop, any bottled beer is going to
come with a cap, and many of these caps are branded by the
brewery. This map provides a way to show off a collection of
beers tried across various breweries, and the caps can be
placed in areas near the geographic location of each
brewery. Another related idea is a shadow
box for someone to keep their brewery coasters
and other mementos from breweries visited.Florida Focused Gift Idea #2: Florida Sports Themed Wall Mount Bottle Cap Openers
This is a must have for anyone with a beer fridge in the
garage, man cave or she shed. These openers are convenient
when mounted right by that beer fridge and the bottle cap
catcher at the bottom is a big plus as well. College sports themed versions are featured here, but there are many options out there worth exploring.
Gift Idea for Homebrewers #1: Oxygen Absorbing Bottle Caps
Homebrewers typically either bottle condition or keg
condition their homebrews. For bottle conditioning, a high
quality, oxygen absorbing cap is essential. This set
features 315 crowns (bottle caps) and the assorted
colors is a bonus as it allows brewers to use different
colors to represent different beer styles. Homebrewers
typically don't use labels, so this color coding is really
quite helpful. Gift Idea for Homebrewers #2: Glass Bottle Drying Rack
Anyone who
homebrews knows how important it is to be sure everything is
sterilized and squeaky clean. This means lots of cleaning
and sanitizing everything from tanks to the bottles used for
conditioning. Even after cleaning glass bottles, if not
dried properly, a moldy musk can stay in the bottle tainting
the homebrewed batch in it's final stages. Glass bottle
drying racks both serve as both bottle storage and support
the optimal bottle drying process. Disclosure: Amazon Links provided on this web page are affiliate links which pay a small commission to the author of this article. These affiliate links have no impact on the price charged by Amazon.
