Michael Jackson's Rare Beer Club's mission statement is simple: To bring you the finest rare beers the world has to offer. And certainly no one in the world had more experience with these artisanal beers than Michael Jackson whom The Wall Street Journal referred to as "The World's leading beer critic". The beers featured were chosen from some of Michael's favorite breweries.
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The world of premium craft beer is truly experiencing a renaissance like we've never seen before. Passionate, creative, artisanal brewers around the world are returning to often-forgotten traditions without compromising on ingredient quality to cut costs. These same brewers are also leading the path in creating new styles by experimenting with unusual ingredients, blending aged beers, aging beers in bourbon barrels, and imparting other innovative brewing techniques.
The World's Best Hand-Selected Rare Beers – Our tasting panel, once headed by Michael Jackson, is a tough lot to impress. They meet twice a month, rating each prospective selection only knowing its style and not where it was brewed. This blind-tasting format assures no prejudices sway our goal of identifying superb representations of specific styles, and delivering only beers offering depth, texture, and nuance. Less than 30% of all beers evaluated are actually featured. Between our panel review process and commitment to working with the industry's most respected importers, we know you are going to be pleased.
Creative Breweries, Ingredients and Selections – We'll be working with breweries such as Belgium's Fantome, where brewer Dany Prignon continues to dazzle the world of craft beer with products like his Fantome Chocolat, a Belgian saison brewed with cocoa powder and chili pepper. We'll feature classic styles such as Barley Wines, Belgian Tripels, and Robust Porters as well as more inventive selections offering subtle hints of white raisins, orange blossoms, ginger, coriander, wood-smoked malts, or coffee beans.
Imperial and Extreme Beers – Many passionate brewers are now offering beers to consumers in small-batch releases that were once enjoyed only by their limited inner circles. Imperial or Extreme beers are often bigger versions of existing styles. More malt, more hops, and much higher ABVs, some of which exceed 12%. They are often complex, celebratory offerings, meant to be shared and sipped as one would a fine spirit.
Unmatched Variety – Members receive two different styles in each shipment. We strive to offer variety between those two styles as well as from month to month. Variety to us means not only by style but also by country of origin, so rest assured that both domestic US craft brewers as well as time-honored international breweries will be represented.
Selections You Can Age – Many selections will offer high enough hop acidities and ABVs to allow them, like fine wine, to be laid down and aged. Members can easily reorder their favorite selections, set them aside, and see how they've matured in months and even years to come.
Recreations of Ancient Beers – One of the more fun things that's come out of the age of brewing creativity is the quest to reproduce recipes hundreds, or even thousands of years old. Dogfish Head's Chateau Jiahu is a good example where brewers used rice flakes, muscat grapes, wildflower honey, barley malt, chrysanthemum flowers, hawthorn fruit and sake yeast to recreate an 8% ABV, 9000-year-old recipe derived from molecular analysis on pottery jars found in the Neolithic village of Jiahu, in Henan province, Northern China.
Introducing New Brewers and Countries to the Craft Scene – When you think of bold, exciting, creative styles, several countries including the US, England, and Belgium come to mind. But we'll also introduce you to exciting microcosms of creativity found in countries like Brazil, Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and more.
Limited Release, Celebratory Beers – All of our selections are presented in 750 ml bottles, most are also cork finished and wire caged, and some are even individually tissue wrapped. Many are seasonal releases, and often we'll be introducing the product to the US market so you'll be the first to try it.
Join or Give a Gift Membership
Two 750 ml Bottles Per Month, one bottle of each featured beer.
for $31.95 per month plus $13.00 S&H
Four 750 ml Bottles Per Month, two bottles of each featured beer.
for $51.95 per month plus $15.00 S&H
Six 750 ml Bottles Per Month, three bottles of each featured beer.
for $68.95 per month plus $18.00 S&H
