Best Beer Subscription Boxes

Best Overall: Tavour

Why We Chose It: You can select the exact beers you want each month or leave it up to experts to choose your box, who customize it to your style preferences.

What We Like
Options to customize
Variety of independent breweries
Flat-rate and free shipping options

What We Don’t Like
Price varies

When you want full control over what goes into your monthly shipment, Tavour is the best choice for a beer subscription box. There are two ways to build your box. You can flip through the Tavour app for the daily available beer options and choose what you want added to your cart. At least two new beers from over 650 independent breweries in 47 states are added to the app each day.

With this option, there is no minimum or maximum number of beers to purchase. The price of each box varies by the cost of the beers you add, and you’ll pay $14.90 for shipping each month regardless of how many beers you add to your box.

When you want to leave the selection to the experts and have your box filled according to your style preferences, Tavour offers a monthly subscription. Choose your preferred styles along with whether you want six beers or 12 beers per month and your box ships free. The monthly price varies by the styles you select. Boxes with five or six beers start at about $35 each.

Tavour ships to 25 states, as of January 2022. Those in the Seattle, Washington, area, where Tavour’s headquarters is located, can request in-person pickup instead of delivery.

Best Variety of Club Options: Craft Beer Kings

Why We Chose It: You can choose a subscription based on the styles of beer you enjoy the most.

What We Like
The number of style-specific subscriptions
Shipping included in pricing

What We Don’t Like
Some styles or beers may be repeated in mixed subscriptions due to availability

Craft Beer Kings offers nine types of craft beer subscription boxes, making it a good choice for those who want more of the beer styles they enjoy the most. Some of the boxes are single styles such as the Sours box and the Hazy IPAs box. Others mix two styles such as the Stouts & IPAs box. If variety and surprise are what you enjoy, there are also boxes for dark beers with porters, stouts, and brown ales, and one called Various Styles that has the latest beers and styles available from top breweries.

There is no minimum commitment when signing up for a beer subscription box from Craft Beer Kings. Once you sign up, you’ll receive your box and be billed once per month until you choose to cancel. Most of the subscriptions start at $69.99 for six cans of beer and some subscriptions have a 12-beer box option for $109.99.

Shipping is included in the price of all subscription boxes. The Craft Beer Kings website states that it ships to most of the lower 48 states (as state laws allow).

Best for Beginners: The Original Craft Beer Club

Why We Chose It: You’ll receive a variety of beer styles from breweries across the U.S. four, six, or 12 times per year.

Pros
Variety of beer styles
Options for frequency of delivery
Accommodates special requests
Flexible payment options

Cons
Duplicate beers in a shipment

You are sure to be introduced to plenty of beers and breweries that are new to you with this beer subscription box. The Original Craft Beer Club sources its beer from nearly every state and includes only craft breweries and brewpubs that are 100 percent independent.

Each box features two breweries from different geographical regions and contains four different styles of beers. You’ll receive 12, 12-ounce beers with three of the same beer in each box. For example, one brewery may provide three stouts and three IPAs, while another brewery provides three pale ales and three lagers. This guarantee of variety allows both experienced and newer beer drinkers to learn more about the style-specific characteristics of craft beer.

A common theme among reviews of this club is its excellent customer service, and the club makes an effort to accommodate special requests. With ongoing memberships, you can choose to skip certain beer styles or choose only bottles or only cans in your shipment. This will affect how frequently you receive shipments, but it is a nice option if you have strong preferences.

It’s simple to ease into this beer subscription box as a beginner because there is no minimum commitment. You can choose to receive beer monthly, bimonthly, or quarterly. Boxes start at $45 each and shipping is included to all of the contiguous United States. Breweries and beers featured in boxes are easy to find on the club’s website so you will know what you can expect from this subscription before making a decision to sign up.