Best IPA Beer Clubs

Craft Beer Kings, a Los Angeles-based retailer, and beer club is perhaps the most well-rounded in the game. The online shop’s selection is impressive—you can peruse a boatload of different beers, including Hazy IPAs, Sours, Dark Beer, and more—and the variety doesn’t end there.

On the subscription front, Craft Beer Kings offers nine different themed boxes that cater to every kind of craft beer enthusiast out there, and you’ll find IPAs in several of them. Whether you opt for the general IPA club or Hazy IPAs, or a combination box (choose from the IPAs and Sours or Stouts and IPAs monthly subscription plan), you know you’ll be getting a fresh and fun assortment of 16-ounce cans each month based on your tastes. Some of these offer a choice of six- or 12-can boxes, and others only offer a six-can option. Six-can shipments are roughly $50 (a little more than $8 per can for the latter) and 12-can boxes are around $95 (approximately $8 per can). Craft Beer Kings ships to the lower 48 states.

Great beers and reasonable prices always make for a satisfying combination. With Half Time’s IPA of the Month Club, you can look forward to a monthly delivery of 12, 12-ounce cans of craft ales from six different breweries at roughly $80 per box, shipping included. This club makes its way around the map with selections from England, Asia, Belgium, and the United States. As far as the beer selections go, Half Time does its best to strike a balance between rare beers, unique styles, new releases, as well as breweries big and small.

Choose from a three-, six-, or 12-month IPA club plan; or, if you don’t want to commit right away, you can always shop Half Time’s IPA or general selection on your own via the website’s Domestic or Imported craft beer tabs. Gluten-free options are also available.

The Microbrewed Beer of the Month Club's top-rated Hop-Heads Club focuses on the breadth of the IPA category and the hoppy beer landscape as a whole. In addition to IPAs, subscribers will receive double and session IPAs along with IPLs (and imperial and session IPLs), hoppy red and pale ales, and more.

What sets this club apart is how it chooses its selection. The company’s beer tasting panel has over a century of experience in the industry (collectively) and they taste everything themselves, rating over 500 different brews annually, only 20% of which end up in club members’ deliveries. These guys also have the added benefit of strong brewer and importer relationships, and through that, they’re able to offer an abundance of exclusive club beers that nonmembers won’t be able to access.

Seasonality is a big factor in club selections. When it comes to tailoring the logistics of your club experience, Beer of the Month Club’s various themed subscriptions each offer plenty of shipment flexibility, which is something you won’t see with a lot of other beer clubs. Choose the number of boxes you or the recipient will be receiving (the options range from two to 12 bundles, or you can select an ongoing membership). Then, select when you would like the membership to begin. From there, you can decide how often you’d like the shipments to be sent out (monthly, bimonthly, or quarterly) and whether you’d prefer to be billed upfront or by shipment. Bonus: Order three shipments or more, and you’ll receive a pro bottle opener at no cost.

By highlighting four different beer styles from two different breweries from separate parts of the United States each month, The Original Craft Beer Club does a stellar job of incorporating a perfect variety in every shipment. There are different styles and substyles (like West Coast vs. New England IPAs, for example) emerging across the country all the time, so with this beer of the month club, you can stay ahead of the curve in terms of the leading tastemaker craft breweries. 

While The Original Craft Beer Club does a terrific job of sourcing the best variety of products from across the country, you do not have the option to customize your orders. Beers are also not available à la carte, so if you find a beer you particularly like in your shipment, you may have to find somewhere else to buy it.

The selection at your local liquor store can get a bit boring with the same mix of massive brands and a couple of local finds. Luckily, Tavour is here to mitigate that issue. This app-based beer subscription service specializes in snuffing out and sourcing the best local finds from all over the U.S., delivering them right to your door with no shipping fees attached. 

Currently, Tavour features over 650 breweries, and its selection continues to evolve. Visit the Tavour website to download the company’s convenient app, which is available for both iPhone and Android.

One of the most intriguing things about Beer Drop is its element of surprise. With each shipment, the company’s team of beer buffs will select an assortment of either six, eight or 10 beers based on the preferences you select at signup. While Beer Drop doesn’t have a subscription specifically for IPAs, you can select “Hoppy Beers” as one of your preferences, which will let Beer Drop know to include things like IPAs, hazy IPAs and pale ales in your monthly shipments. You can also add dark beers, sours, light beers, Belgian beers and more to your list of preferences. 

Looking to buy for a friend or family member? Beer Drop allows you to gift up to 12 months of craft beer, all of which are customized to the recipient's preferences.

Hazy IPAs are termed “hazy” because they are unfiltered and include remnants of the hops, fruits and other ingredients in the brewing process that most other beers filter out. The result is a flavorful and fruity beer with a distinctive “haze,” so to speak, and if you’ve been paying attention to beer lists for the past 10 years, you might have noticed how popular they’ve become. 

If you’re one of the many converts to this fruity and refreshing beer, Craft Shack has an excellent subscription box filled with nothing but hazy IPAs. Additionally, the company’s website holds an extensive collection of beers, including over 140 hazy IPAs, along with seltzers, liquors and more that you can purchase à la carte.

Fans of New England IPAs swear by their balanced taste, especially compared to West Coast IPAs, which tend to go for over-the-top flavor profiles with tons of hops and fruits. If a more subdued IPA flavor is more your speed, check out Beer Gifts Gods’ New England’s Best IPA Beer Subscription. Each delivery comes with either four, eight or 12 cans of beer, with previous selections including fan favorites such as Tree House, Trillium, and Bissell Brothers. 

Got an IPA fan in your life with a special occasion coming up? Check out the “everyday beer gifts” section of the Beer Gift Gods website, which boasts over a dozen gift boxes dedicated to IPAs. Each one contains two beers, a pint glass and “lots of cool BGG swag,” including stickers and coasters.