

Meet The Mix’R seasonal 12-pack from Salt Lake City’s Uinta Brewing Company. The current mix features Stone IPA, Ruination IPA, Levitation Ale, and Oaked Arrogant Bastard Ale. Stone Brewing makes a variety pack for hop heads, obviously. What beer list would be complete without Sierra Nevada Pale Ale? Add Kellerweis Bavarian-style wheat, Nooner, and Kölsch and you’ve got yourself a party. This Colorado-brewed variety pack features ESB Special Ale, True Blonde Ale, and Modus Hoperandi IPA in a package that combines the offbeat label art from each beer inside. While most breweries offer variety packs with three or four of their beers, Deschutes Brewery takes makes a 12-pack that includes a whopping six Oregon-brewed favorites: Mirror Pond, Black Butte Porter, Inversion IPA, Deschutes River Ale, Obsidian Stout, and Chainbreaker White IPA. Two Roads Brewing Company rolled out the Beer Bus variety pack this year, with Ol’Factory Pils, Honeyspot Road White IPA and Lil Heaven Session IPA, and a rotating seasonal brew: Road Jam Raspberry Wheat Ale with Lemongrass in the summer, Roadsmary’s Baby Rum Barrel-aged Pumpkin Ale in the fall and Route of all Evil Black Ale in the winter. The Can Do variety packs and the Adirondack Trail Mix all include the brewery’s popular Pale Ale and the Legacy IPA. If you’re shopping for a summer variety pack (or two), here are my recommendations.īeyond this year’s easy-drinking summer 12-pack, (which includes Legacy IPA, Summer Pils, Gen IV session IPA, and Cloud Splitter Belgian-style white ale) Saranac Brewery makes a variety pack for each season, along with three other 12-packs. I proudly contributed to the significant growth of craft beer variety pack sales last year- these mix packs, booty boxes, pleasure chests, you-name-its are guaranteed crowd-pleasers, not to mention they tend to be cheaper than that bottle of wine.


Some people bring bottles of wine to parties for hostess gifts.
