Beer Gifts For Men (Yes, Women Too)

A new personal beer fridge is a can’t-miss gift

You are looking for the best beer gifts for men, or the beer snob in your life and I am here to give them to you. I am always looking for gift ideas so I thought probably do too.

Sure, you can wander Amazon or the Internet as a whole and call it a day. No, it’s too basic. You could waste a lot of time that way. You need someone to filter it down for you.

I am a beer geek and also a guy and I know what I would like to get as a gift for Christmas, or birthday, or Father’s Day, or any damn day. I want to give you some good ideas for a beer gift for you or some other awesome person.

My Best List of Beer Gifts For Men (and Women)

Here are some beer geek gifts I would like and I hope it helps you figure out what to buy the beer dude in your life. There is a full description of gifts and links to many beer gifts further down in the post, but here are my top five picks for beer person gifts, if you don’t have time for all that:

  1. A good ice chest.
  2. A personal fridge.
  3. A good beer glass.
  4. A place to sit.
  5. A book to read.

A Good Ice Chest

In my opinion, a Yeti is the best cooler around. Everything else just tries to be it. Is it expensive? Sure. But keeping beer cold for a long time is worth it.

*Heads up: Most of these links are affiliates of my blog – just something “they” feel you should know. I might make a tiny percentage if you end up buying something.

A Fun Beer Device

I want a Square Keg so much. I am hoping they will send me one. It makes you the cool guy at the tailgate that has draft beer. People will say “Did you see that guy with the square beer thing? It was pretty cool, too bad the guy was such a dork.” I am ready to be that guy.

A Solid Beer Glass

I approve of all of them, but I am not a fan of the thickass pintglass.

A Beer Garden Shirt

There may be some states where it’s unlawful to walk into a brewery or taproom without a flannel shirt of some kind, Male or female. Beer-inspired clothing options:

While you’re here, we also like jackets because you tend to spend more time outside when you’re beer-drinking. So staying warm is important.

A Beer Journal For Documenting

This beer gift may feel a bit different, but it’s my favorite. I have a whole post about notebooks for beer geeks you can check out. But you can’t go wrong with this one. Even with Untappd, I still like to keep a log of my thoughts while drinking. A notebook would also be great for home brewers.

A Beer Making Kit

There are a lot of brewing kits on Amazon to choose from. The Northern Brewer series of home brewer starter kits, seem to be the best rated – they have many different beer styles, so make sure you’re not getting one with a beer style your person hates.

There are also some good ones at Brew Dog.

Beer RELATED Gifts For Men

Bonus quick links to gifts that a person into beer would also like. I am going to keep adding to the list until it becomes the greatest gift idea list for beer geeks of all time!:

Good Luck With Your Beer Gifting!

This was a guide I put together for you, a person looking to buy a solid gift for a beer geek. Maybe that person is you, or maybe it’s someone you know. Just know that I am a beer geek and I would love anything here, so I am guessing the beer person in your life would too.

I will regularly check back with this post and update it with more beer gifts and gadgets so bookmark this, you fine gift-giving person.

Has Russian River Ever Changed the Label of Pliny The Elder?

Yes. The answer is yes, Russian River Brewing has changed the label of Pliny The Elder… but hasn’t changed it much.

There has only been subtle changes over the years. If you watch the video, I have four different (but not THAT different) Pliny labels.

I assume the first ever packaged Pliny The Elder has a different label than these…so that means there are at least five different labels (if you look real close).

(Check out my newsletter where I posted a version of this, first)

Cheers! Enjoy your Russian River beers and thanks for reading.

(And it you’re heading to Santa Rosa or Windsor to visit Russian River, don’t forget to bring a cooler!)

Why Do Beer Bottles Have Ridges On The Bottom?

Many tallboys and beer bottles have little ridges at the bottom to make them stable.

The ridges that circle the bottom helps prevent them from floating around when the bottle has a bunch of condensation making the bottle wet and slippery. If they did not have the bumps or ridges, the bottle could slide of your table.

As an example, cans do not have ridges, bumps or grooves and are obviously very light when empty. And many times, I have experienced my empty and sweaty can begin “floating” around the table with no help. I am no Jedi with abilities some would consider to be…unnatural.

I am just a dude telling explaining on YouTube what the ridges on the bottom of a bottle are:

So yeah, it’s what you thought, the little ridges on the bottom of a beer bottle help it to keep standing, no matter how sweaty it gets.

Plus, it’s fun to run your nails over them… wait, am I the only weirdo that does that?

A Beer Buzz Is Awesome but Doesn’t Last Long Enough

The music sounds different. Feels different. Tastes, smells, thoughts, attitude, creativity, all from…

A beer buzz. It’s fucking great.

I feel like it’s something we don’t talk about nearly enough.

There are lots of great things about beer and, for me, this may be the biggest: a nice buzz.

You see, I am a weird motherfucker. Not a normal person when it comes to communicating to other humans.

But when I have a beer. Or two. I feel like I bump up to the level of a regular person.

I can talk about things. Amplify my mood. And it’s all due to alcohol. Beer.

And, I am more creative. Some of my best writing ideas happen after a beer. Turns out, you actually are more creative when drinking:

“Alcohol manipulates focus,” says Jennifer Wiley, Ph.D., and coauthor of the study. If you’re doing taxes—not such a good thing. But when it comes to puzzles or “out of the box” tasks, relaxation and flexibility—what you’re feeling after a few drinks—can spark creativity. You’re more likely to let your mind wander, she says.

Hells yeah, that’s science, my friend.

Sadly, it’s always a small window, the beer buzz. It’s like, maybe a couple hours. But it’s a good couple of hours. A really fucking good couple of hours.

Then it starts degrading into being tired or drunk or both, if you keep going.

Yes, there is a downside sometimes. If I am pissed about something, I am looser and sometimes say what I feel.

Hell, I called out Oakland A’s pitcher and broadcaster, Dave Stewart, on Twitter last night about being a company man during this whole Oakland A’s moving to Las Vegas deal:

That was after two beers. I turned up the volume on my third:

Dave Stewart is a hero of mine and I called him out publicly in front of the Oakland A’s community. There is no way I do that with no beers in me. A buzz can make a nerd do weird things.

Wait, I am getting off track…

I just wanted to tell you this because it never gets discussed: a beer buzz is awesome!

The time between having a couple beers and getting tired and passing out, is magical, creative, fun, and needs more respect.

Here are these thoughts in video form, if you’re interested: