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Current Featured Beers - August 2025
Our panel of Brewmasters and Beer Judges has rated over 7,500 beers, ensuring that you or your gift recipient will get exciting and innovative, world-class selections. We rate each beer’s appearance, aromatic profile, body and balance, mouthfeel, finish, and of course, its overall character, flavor and appeal.
Discover this month's highly-rated craft beer selections for each of our 5 Distinct Beer Clubs using the chart below. Or, view all of our Past Selections.
Featured Brewery & Beer |
The U.S. Microbrewed Beer Club
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The U.S. and International Variety Beer Club
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The Hop-Heads Beer Club
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The International Beer Club
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The Rare Beer Club®
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3 styles: 12 bottles |
2 styles: 12 bottles |
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Millstream Brewing Company - Shenanigans |
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Millstream Brewing Company - Oom Pah Pah |
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Bent River Brewing Company - Uncommon Stout |
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Bent River Brewing Company - Milltown Wheat |
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Bent River Brewing Company - QC Haze |
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Millstream Brewing Company - Widow Maker |
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Carlow Brewing Company - O’Hara’s Irish Red |
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Carlow Brewing Company - O’Hara’s Irish Stout |
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South Street Brewery - Imperial Satan’s Pony |
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Millstream Brewing Company - 40th Anniversary Bourbon Barrel Aged Porter |
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Please Note: We don’t offer substitutions for our monthly selections unless you’re a member of the Rare Beer Club. If you have specific style preferences, feel free to explore our Beer Store for a wide range of individual options.

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Choose from Five different Beer Clubs offering unmatched variety by brewery,
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- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Irish Red Ale
- ABV: 7.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
- Serving Temperature: 43-48° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Magnum, Tettnang
- Malts: Honey Malt, Pils, Caramel
- Country: United States
Smooth, malty, and irresistibly drinkable, Shenanigans is a flavorful Irish Red Ale – that's considerably stronger than most traditional Irish versions – crafted with Midwest pride. This well-balanced brew pours a clear amber-red with a creamy, off-white head. Rich caramel and toasted malt notes shine upfront, backed by a touch of biscuit and a mellow, creamy mouthfeel...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: German Pilsner
- ABV: 5.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
- Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass
- Hops: Magnum
- Malts: Pilsner
- Country: United States
Bright and refreshing take on the classic German-style Pilsner. This crisp lager pours a clear, golden color with a fluffy white head that leaves a lasting lace. Aromas of floral noble hops mingle with light malt sweetness, inviting you in with every sip. On the palate, it offers a smooth and balanced blend of bready malt character and a clean, gentle bitterness that refreshes without overpowering. The finish is dry and crisp, making it...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Oatmeal Coffee Stout
- ABV: 6.4%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 31
- Serving Temperature: 50-55º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass, Mug, Tulip
- Hops: Warrior, Centennial
- Malts: Pale Malt, Flaked Oats, Chocolate Malt, White Wheat, Roasted Wheat, Roasted Barley
Bent River brews this oatmeal stout with coffee, dramatically augmenting the coffee-like overtones often present in beers like stouts and porters which are built with a large amount of roasted grains. Sometimes brewers can miss the mark and go a little too crazy with the coffee, but Bent River really hit the mark here well. Uncommon Stout pours a very dark brown with a very sizeable head that retains well. Unsurprisingly, big coffee notes dominate...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Pale Wheat Ale
- ABV: 5.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 32
- Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
- Suggested Glassware: Flute, Weizen Glass
- Hops: Amarillo
- Malts: Pale, White Wheat, Flaked Oats
- Country: United States
Milltown Wheat highlights the finest qualities of American Wheat Ale with a smooth, medium-bodied profile made from 50% white wheat malt. Brewed with Amarillo hops, it features lively floral and citrus notes balanced by subtle malt sweetness. This hazy golden ale pours with a thick, lingering white head and finishes clean, crisp, and refreshing...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: New England Hazy IPA
- ABV: 7.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 40
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, Tulip
- Hops: Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe
- Malts: Pale, White Wheat, Flaked Oats
- Country: United States
After rousing the yeast from the bottom of our bottles, QC Haze presents a super hazy bright golden orange hue topped by a persistent cap of off-white foam that slowly recedes to a lasting collar. Juicy impressions abound in the aroma; look for notes of orange and grapefruit along with some melon-like notes, floral tones, and some resinous spice. In the flavor department, those juicy hops expand wide across the palate, bringing firm hop...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: New England Hazy IPA
- ABV: 6.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 24
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, Tulip
- Hops: Idaho 7, Cashmere
- Malts: Pils, Oats, Wheat
- Country: United States
This hazy IPA from Millstream pours a very well-hazed golden color with a large and persistent head of foam. In the aroma, look for bright citrus zest to jump out right away, along with a juicy array of softer tropical fruit and flora, impressions of sliced melon, and a light, somewhat peach-like stone fruit tone. All these luscious fruity notes take center stage in the flavor too, supported nicely by a robust, wheaty, malty core that offers a...
- Bottle Size: 440-ml
- Style: Irish Red Ale (Nitrogenated)
- ABV: 4.3%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
- Serving Temperature: 43-48° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Mt. Hood
- Country: Ireland
What a treat – a craft-brewed traditional Irish red ale from the Emerald Isle itself! Pouring a very deep red-amber with a robust head of tight foam from the nitrogenated can, this Gold Medal winning ale (at the 2013 Dublin Craft Beer Cup) looks great in the glass. Big, prominent bread crust notes burst forth in the aroma, quite toasty indeed, bolstered by a touch of roast and cocoa powder, with impressions of earthy hops. On the palate, look for...
- Bottle Size: 440-ml
- Style: Irish Dry Stout (Nitrogenated)
- ABV: 4.3%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 40
- Serving Temperature: 45-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Fuggle
- Country: Ireland
Made with five different locally sourced Irish malts, O’Hara’s Irish Stout has been impressing lovers of this style and pulling in competition medals for decades, including Double Gold and the Championship Trophy at the 2000 International Brewing Industry Awards, No.1 Beer at the Milan Beer Festival in 2008, and a Platinum medal at the Meininger International Craft Beer Awards in Germany in 2018 – to name just a few. Pouring an extremely...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Bourbon-Barrel-Aged Imperial Red Ale
- ABV: 9%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 19
- Serving Temperature: 48-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Small Nonic, Snifter, or Goblet
- Hops: Simcoe, Fuggle
- Malts: Spec Pale, Caramel 60, Goldpils Vienna, Wheat, Light Crystal, Chocolate, Cara Red
- Country: United States
South Street’s Imperial Satan’s Pony is a bourbon-barrel-aged imperial red ale clocking in at 9% ABV. The original Satan’s Pony amber ale is one of Virginia’s longest-running beers, and its imperial counterpart uses twice the malt bill and twice the hops, while aging the outcome for two months in freshly emptied Willett bourbon barrels. This brew gets very much into barleywine-like territory, but is especially smooth overall. This beer is...
- Bottle Size: 16-oz
- Style: Bourbon-Barrel-Aged Imperial Porter
- ABV: 8.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 32
- Serving Temperature: 48-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Small Nonic, Snifter, or Goblet
- Hops: Magnum, Saaz
- Malts: Pils, Caramel, Chocolate
- Country: United States

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