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Out-of-the-box thinking results in creative Beer Advent Calendar opportunity<\/h3>\n

Once again, the holiday season is approaching, and it\u2019s as challenging as ever to think of new and interesting gift ideas for the beer lover in your life.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Perhaps, as we\u2019ve done in the past, you\u2019ve hand-picked a set of interesting-looking cans or bombers and stuffed them into stockings or tucked them into an array of gift bags. That\u2019s a great way to curate what\u2019s going under the tree.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, you might have bought a mix pack from a single BC brewery. Better yet, if you were lucky enough to find one, you indulged in a beer advent calendar from one of the few local breweries that have offered such a thing.<\/p>\n

Advent calendars are great because they contain 24 beers which the recipient gets to open on a daily basis if they want to. They\u2019re just as fun as the pre-Christmas candy packs that inspired them. But when it comes to what\u2019s inside the box, you\u2019re at the mercy of the brewery. If only there was a way to have such an advent calendar, but ensure that the beers included were all worth gifting.<\/p>\n

Allow us to present the ultimate present: the Craftmas Box<\/a>, BC\u2019s newest holiday beer gift tradition.<\/p>\n

Where\u2019s The Beer?<\/h2>\n

Craftmas Box is a new BC company which is offering a beer advent calendar kit. There are three \u201cflavours\u201d as seen above, sold online for $24.99 each<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The red box. Photo: Kelsey Blaby<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Echoing a Wendy\u2019s ad campaign from decades past, you might ask: \u201cWhere\u2019s The Beer?\u201d<\/em> The answer is: you\u2019re supplying that yourself. Which prompts the natural followup question, why buy an empty box? It turns out that, for many beer geeks, the answer is only too clear.<\/p>\n

With other beer advent calendars, which of course retail for a lot more money, you have no particular creative input. You can only hope that your loved one will enjoy the beers provided. Generally, that wouldn\u2019t be a problem if the beers provided were of a comparable quality to what the source brewery typically produces.<\/p>\n

However, if you\u2019ve ever gifted or received a commercial beer advent calendar, you may have found that the supplied beverages didn\u2019t all meet your expectations. The obvious reason for this is that there are two dozen of them, and the brewery can\u2019t just provide all of the same standard brews they\u2019d include in a mixer pack during the rest of they year. So they come up with some \u2018creative\u2019 holiday recipes, and not all of them might tickle your fancy, especially if you have a discriminating palate.<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019ve ever had advent calendar buyer\u2019s remorse, or if you happen to know what types of beers your intended recipient prefers, or if you\u2019re just a creative, out-of-the-box thinker, the Craftmas Box might be the route for you.<\/p>\n

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Instructions are provided, but you won\u2019t need them!<\/em><\/p>\n

Unboxing the Box<\/h2>\n

First impression is that the artwork on the boxes is impressive. They\u2019re quick to assemble as well, as seen in our unboxing and re-boxing video above<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 24 spaces in the box are designed to hold regular 12oz beer bottles. That means they\u2019re really not meant for 650ml bombers, so remember that when you\u2019re out shopping.<\/p>\n

As you\u2019ll know, a lot of beer comes in cans these days. Cans come in different sizes. Fortunately, there are 11 cardboard spacers included which will help your cans match the height of your bottles.\u00a0The only mildly tricky thing to learn is that the spacers which are labelled \u2018Tall\u2019 are the size you use for small cans, and \u2018Regular\u2019\u00a0 is for tall cans.<\/p>\n

Revealing your personal creativity: it\u2019s not just for beer<\/h2>\n

Once you start to think out of the box, the \u2018hopportunities\u2019 are endless. Naturally the box is not limited to beer, since you can include cider, mini hard liquor bottles, craft sodas or any bottle that fits. However, it doesn\u2019t stop there. Who says a calendar can only contain beverages?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, we don\u2019t, and the Craftmas folks agree. They have a starter list of items you can place in the box<\/a>, including gift cards, coffee beans, specialty tea bags, soaps, lotions, snacks, candy, cigars, toys, or anything.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a great time to gift some of the best beers of 2022!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Since Beer Me BC<\/em> and its cousin What\u2019s Brewing<\/em> are avid collectors of BC beer items<\/a>, it\u2019s only appropriate that we should suggest a few gems to help your Craftmas Box sparkle under the Christmas tree.\u00a0Basically, almost anything that would fit in a Christmas stocking can fit in the Craftmas Box. So how about:<\/p>\n