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Current Featured Beers - January 2025
Our panel of Brewmasters and Beer Judges has rated over 7,500 beers, ensuring that you or your gift recipient will get exciting and innovative, world-class selections. We rate each beer’s appearance, aromatic profile, body and balance, mouthfeel, finish, and of course, its overall character, flavor and appeal.
Discover this month's highly-rated craft beer selections for each of our 5 Distinct Beer Clubs using the chart below. Or, view all of our Past Selections.
Featured Brewery & Beer |
The U.S. Microbrewed Beer Club
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The U.S. and International Variety Beer Club
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The Hop-Heads Beer Club
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The International Beer Club
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The Rare Beer Club®
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4 styles: 12 bottles |
4 styles: 12 bottles |
3 styles: 12 bottles |
2 styles: 12 bottles |
2 styles: 2, 4 or 6 btls |
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Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Company - Mountain Man | |||||||||||||||
Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Company - Vanilla Porter | |||||||||||||||
Black Hog Brewing Company - Granola Brown Ale | |||||||||||||||
Black Hog Brewing Company - Cold Pizza Pilsner | |||||||||||||||
Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Company - Citra IPA | |||||||||||||||
Black Hog Brewing Company - Break Time | |||||||||||||||
Black Hog Brewing Company - Hazy | |||||||||||||||
Abbazia delle Tre Fontane - Tripel | |||||||||||||||
Privatbrauerei Eichbaum - Pilsener | |||||||||||||||
O’so Brewing Company - King Louis XIII | |||||||||||||||
BJ’s Brewhouse - Grand Cru 25th Anniversary |
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Unmatched Variety by style, brewery & country
Choose from Five different Beer Clubs offering unmatched variety by brewery,
country of origin, and beer style to suit your specific tastes.
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV: 6.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 20
- Serving Temperature: 50-55º F
- Suggested Glassware: Thistle, Tulip, Snifter
- Hops: Willamette, Northern Brewer
- Malts: Montana 2-Row, Proprietary Blend
- Country: United States
This Scotch Ale is Jeremiah Johnson’s flagship beer, and pours quite dark – even for a Scotch Ale – a deep brown with reddish flashes when held to the light, topped by a cap of beige to light brown foam. In the aroma, look for deep-down caramelization boasting hints of toffee, plus cocoa powder, brown sugar, and touches of evergreen woodsiness. It’s in the flavor, though, that things really get going as the aroma notes amplify and cascade...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Porter with Vanilla
- ABV: 6.4%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 16
- Serving Temperature: 50-55º F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Pint Glass
- Hops: Willamette, Magnum
- Malts: Montana 2-Row, Proprietary Blend
- Country: United States
Jeremiah Johnson’s seasonal Vanilla Porter presents a very dark brown hue topped by a rich-looking head of persistent brown foam. The Madagascar vanilla makes its appearance right away in the aroma, offering its inviting creamy character as a high note atop prominent tones of milk chocolate and caramel that are bolstered by touches of roasty coffee. The story continues on the palate with a very nicely realized porter base offering plenty...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Brown Ale
- ABV: 5.7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 10
- Serving Temperature: Pint Glass or Mug
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Nugget, Willamette, Chinook
- Malts: British Pale, Oat Malt, Special B, Brown, Flaked Oats
- Country: United States
This 2016 World Beer Cup gold medal winner offers us a deep reddish-brown hue in our glasses, capped by a sizable head of light brown foam that retains well before dropping to a persistent collar. Look for quite a malty aroma here, offering notes of brown bread and toasted bread crust, dry-roasted nuts, deep caramel, brown sugar, and – you guessed it – granola, all overlaid by subtly woody hops. Those malty elements form a bold center on the...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Italian-style Pilsner
- ABV: 5.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 30
- Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass, Flute
- Hops: Magnum, Perle, Saaz
- Malts: Pilsner, CaraFoam
- Country: United States
Black Hog’s pilsner presents a bright and radiant golden color with excellent clarity beneath a big rocky head of persistent just-off-white foam. The beer is brewed in the style of “Italian Pilsner”, which is a relatively new style that’s fairly light like a German pils – but dry-hopped to bring out a bolder and fresher hop character. On the nose, we get lots of the classic European noble hop tones, bringing lots of herbal spiciness plus...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 65
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Citra
- Malts: Montana 2-Row, Proprietary Blend
- Country: United States
Jeremiah Johnson’s Citra IPA presents a bright pale golden color with a touch of haze and a lasting head of creamy, lacing foam. The brewers aimed to make a citrus bomb with this Citra-centric ale, and we have to say they succeeded well. Sliced orange flesh, orange juice, candied orange peel – it’s all here in the aroma, along with more acidic impressions of grapefruit and lemon-lime. We picked up touches of resinous pine and softer floral...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.2%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Rakau, Mosaic, Simcoe, Citra
- Malts: 2-Row, CaraFoam
- Country: United States
This IPA pours a yellowish golden color with a prominent off-white head that displays some lacing as it recedes and we drink the beer down. Very lush tropical notes jump out to us right away, offering complex facets of mango, passion fruit, and very ripe pineapple, along with soft stone fruit impressions, juicy citrus, and sliced pear. On the palate, the pale malts provide a straightforward backbone of support while those hoppy contributions...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: New England-style Hazy IPA
- ABV: 6.2%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Citra, Simcoe
- Malts: 2-Row, Golden Naked Oats, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat
- Country: United States
This New England-style hazy IPA not surprisingly presents a very hazy golden appearance in our glass, topped with a head of bright foam. We get super vibrant hops in the aroma, delivering big fruity notes of sliced citrus tending toward grapefruit and orange, backed up by prominent stone fruits leaning toward apricot, moderate floral notes, and touches of pine resin. These hops burst forth with a cocktail of fruity impressions in the flavor...
- Bottle Size: 330-ml
- Style: Tripel
- ABV: 8.5%
- Serving Temperature: 46-53° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Snifter
- Country: Italy
Brewed with the abbey's signature eucalyptus, this Belgian-style tripel pours a bright, hazy, copper amber color, with a rocky head of khaki foam that persists well before dropping to a lasting collar. Tripels, like Belgian ales in general, are known for their very yeast-driven character, and we get that here in spades. Look for distinct herbal, spicy, and earthy notes of clove, pepper, and mild eucalyptus, joined by fruity impressions of...
- Bottle Size: 500-ml
- Style: German Pilsner
- ABV: 4.8%
- Serving Temperature: 40-45° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass, Flute
- Country: Germany
Eichbaum’s Pilsener pours a bright straw color with great clarity and a huge head of rocky white foam. In the aroma, we get the profile of an authentic German pils, with noble hops displaying notes of grass, hay, earth, and herbal spice, all atop a softly bready malt undertone that’s quite inviting. Look for those malty notes to create a wonderful central support on the palate too, with light notes of fresh bread and cracker. The German hops...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Imperial Barrel-aged Lager with Terpenes
- ABV: 10%
- Serving Temperature: 49-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Tulip, Teku, or Thistle Glass
- Country: United States
O’so Brewing’s King Louis XIII is a delicious imperial lager aged in second use bourbon barrels with the addition of terpenes (naturally occurring aromatic compounds found in hops, among other botanical sources, which are responsible for giving hops their vibrant character), creating a unique and flavorful beer. It pours a deep golden amber, with slight mahogany highlights due to the barrel aging. Though moderately clear, there can be a bit of...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Belgian-Style Ale Brewed with Spices
- ABV: 10.5%
- Serving Temperature: 48–54° F
- Suggested Glassware: Globe Snifter, Chalice, Tulip, or Teku
- Country: United States
BJ’s Grand Cru 25th Anniversary presents a deep golden-amber hue in the glass, its pale appearance belying its robust strength. The pour is topped with an off-white, glistening head that gradually settles into intricate lacing along the glass’s edge. Even when the head subsides, gentle agitation brings it back to life, revealing the beer’s lively carbonation. The creamy lacing is particularly striking, resembling latte foam over a rich honey...
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