Giving the gift of craft beer for Christmas: Indie Ale House sets an example of the type of craft brewery you should focus your efforts on when creating Christmas gift of beer.
Giving the gift of craft beer for Christmas: Indie Ale House sets an example of the type of craft brewery you should focus your efforts on when creating Christmas gift of beer.

New strategy: an Indie-roused Christmas gift idea

Last year around this time, I published an article about Christmas gifts for the craft beer lover. I focused the article on items that were connected to the craft beer scene, but were not beer themselves. The logic was simply that purchasing beer for a craft beer drinker can be easy to get wrong: avoid that possibility by focusing on beer swag, fashion, learning aids, and other beer-related accessories.

But what do you do if you really don’t know anything about craft beer, but are stubbornly keen to purchase your craft beer-obsessed friend or family member beer that they are really going to be happy and surprised to receive?

I recently received a package from Indie Ale House with a nice selection of craft beer. Receiving it suggested to me (given the season and what was on my mind – answering the above question) a way to create a Christmas gift of beer for the craft beer lover I hadn’t really considered previously, and I quite like it.

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