US 52 Week Beer Club

The US 52 week beer club is a US beers only version of our popular subscription beer club. For £119.99 (+ a one off shipping charge of £5.99) you’ll receive a different bottle of fantastic US craft beer for every week of the year.

The club will be a great way for you to explore the exciting, challenging, flavourful beers emanating from the United States beer scene.

There'll be Pale Ales, Porters, IPA's, Double IPA's, Imperial Stouts, special Seasonal beers and even collaborative beers between different breweries. We will endeavour to source classic and unusual US beers in a wide range of styles.

Contrary to most peoples opinions of American beer, the US has arguably the most vibrant and interesting craft brewery scene in the world. Craft brewers unhindered by traditional styles and flavours have since the late 70's been re-inventing and re-defining styles of beer with amazing results. Our mission is to bring you an interesting mix of the best of their output.

Our US 52 week beer club will deliver you 13 interesting and eclectic US beers in four quarterly deliveries, September - December - April - July. We'll also include tasting notes to help you enjoy the beers.

Due to availability, the club will be capped to 50 members, so if you love US beers and would like to become a member please don't wait too long!

Tasting notes for the first case are below. We're already planning the second case which will feature many more hard to find beers previously un-seen in the UK.

You can become a member of the 'US 52WBC' here

Win Free Jaipur for a Year... The Winner!

We had a fantastic response to our competition to win free Jaipur for a year, click the video below to see who won! (apologies for the film quality, we will invest in a better camera once we've sold some more beer).

Win Free Jaipur For A Year from myBrewerytap on Vimeo.

Don't forget you can still get 15% off a case of Jaipur by using the discount code GBBFJAIPUR when purchasing a case of Jaipur here...

Saltaire Brewery with Oz and Hugh...

I don't need much of an excuse to visit a brewery and so when Tony Gartland of Saltaire Brewery invited me along to a special event at his brewery I wasn't about to say no. The brewery has been gaining a reputation and awards in the last few years for its flavourful beers and this had obviously been noticed by Oz Clarke (or his programmes production crew) as they were due to film a section for his new "Oz and Hugh Drink To.." series.

As I wrote about a couple of months ago here, Saltaire Brewery regularly opens its doors for its "beer club" where local beer lovers come to enjoy the Saltaire brews from the source. The invite I received from Tony said this was to be a special "beer club" for invitees only, there would be a free bar and we were needed to help participate in tasting some beers that Oz Clarke and Hugh Dennis had brewed and give our verdict.

I arrived on Wednesday afternoon just after 4pm and met Rob from Hopzine and his wife and about 50 other people milling around outside. We weren't allowed in the brewery yet as they were filming something or other, but the Saltaire staff were mingling taking drinks orders.

After 10 minutes or so we were ushered inside to participate in the filming. After a brief run down from the director on what was going to happen, Oz and Hugh emerged with trays full of sample glasses of the 'beers' they'd made. One was supposed to be a stout type "beer" and one a weird fruit "beer". As far as I can work out they'd both been given a table full of ingredients and been allowed to do what they want with little or no guidance, and it showed.. I wasn't really expecting them to be good, but they were both comically, un-drinkably bad. The 'stout' had a disturbingly sweet, cloying hot chocolate flavour which wasn't pleasant at all, (presumably because one of them had gone mental with the Triple Chocoholic ingredients). The 'fruit beer' was thinner and tasted strongly of cherries but not in a nice way. It reminded me of Rinstead pastils or warm dentists mouthwash. Not good.

Oz and Hugh then passed through the crowd filming reaction to their beers and chatting with the audience. We didn't get filmed but managed to grab Oz for a chat and a quick picture. I don't know how much beer he'd had but he came across well and was happy to chat for a while admitting that neither beer was up to much. I'm not sure how long they'd been filming for but both of them looked pretty bleary eyed to me.

After voting on our favourite of the two offerings the results were read out and the last section filmed. We then headed upstairs to taste some Elderflower Blonde, and the aforementioned Triple Chocoholic , which as expected were tasting great, especially after what we'd just tasted. I left soon after, conscious of the fact that I was in a brewery with a free bar on a school night.

If you want to know which 'beer' won watch out for the next series of Oz and Hugh Drink to.. I'm not sure when its on but I'd expect around Christmas time.

You can buy Saltaire Brewery beers here.

Guest Blog #3 - Adam Bruderer on Summer 52wbc

The third part of guest blogger Adam Bruderer's review of our current 52 week beer club case...

9. Oakleaf Brewery Co Hole hearted – A surprisingly powerful golden ale. Hints of floral aromas and a strong after taste. (3.5/5)

10 Felinfoel Brewery Stout – Ah, stout! I’ve been looking forward to this one. A typically rich full bodied stout. A thick creamy head, smooth and malty. Very drinkable (3.5/5)

11. Belvoir Brewery Melton Red. Full flavoured with bitter undertones, typical of a red beer along with a strong aftertaste. One to be drank slowly and savoured (3/5)

12. Atlantic Brewery Gold is described as an organic pale ale spiced with ginger. So here was an opportunity to do a taste test and compare it with Williams Brothers Alcoholic Ginger Beer. The ginger flavours of the Atlantic Gold were much more subtle. Not the ginger-y kick of the Williams Bros beer but refreshing none the less. (3.5/5)

13. Finally Acorn Brewery Conquest. As a fan of Acorn beers and IPAs, I left this one until last and it did not disappoint. This golden IPA is full of hoppy goodness and an enjoyable bitter aftertaste (4/5)

Well, that brings to an end my first stint of beer blogging. I hope I have done all the beers justice. Many thanks for myBrewerytap.com for supplying the beers and if anyone would like me to review any of their beers, please contact me!

Thanks Adam. More un-biased guest reviews of our cases soon! You can sign up for the 52wbc here, or buy the mixed case with the same contents here.