Suggestions: Buying Beer Online

It's weird how letspour lets you log in with the state that you'd be shipping to but doesn't mention that it can't ship to TX.

 

I just used craftshack, it was a good experience.

 

Cannot ship to Texas? What ? A majority of our county's are wet why not Texas, if you know why?

 

I've been using Julian for about a year now. His customer service is fantastic! His shipping just increased to $27, but that is very reasonable considering some of the other sites out there.

 

I got my order I think the day before the shipping increase. The customer service was spot on. I had a few questions and he responded to all my emails very quickly.

 

There is a lot of sites, but for the most part you wont find one that is like all US craft, they mostly carry their regions beer. So you may need to find a few you like.

 

Belgium in a box

 

I use
http://www.craftbeerkings.com (has a lot of rares,and not locals, not on the site, need to follow them on instagram to see them,great to beer trade with as well)
http://www.halftimebeverage.com (I use it for BCBS generally)
I also use and love blackwellswine http://www.blackwellswines.com , but they arent updated for beer so you need to sign up for the newsletter and every week they send you all their new sours and beers and prices. Usually have pliny the elder, RR sours, Cantillion , plenty of good stuff.

 

Great selection, but how is the shipping, if you have bought from them.

 

Expensive. What do you expect?
They take a heavy fragile box and ship it from Belguim to your front door.
But when a box filled with Westy and Cantilion arrives, you forget what shipping costs.

 

Well, any on line store here is state regulated, if TX is a no ship state then it is just that. I assume you could use private couriers if your into Belgians, bypasses customs and state regs, they don't care.

 

Just TABC tomfoolery. Most online shops in the U.S. cannot ship to TX. And posting names of companies that will, often leads to them not being able to ship to TX anymore as the TABC searches for threads like this. It's a shame.

 

If you follow craftbeerkings on Instagram you will see more pics from them obtaining beer that they won't sell or trade, most of them are whales and leads to extreme amounts of jealousy
It is honestly a bit annoying that they do this on the businesses account
But if you regularly buy from them it would still be a good idea, they post on insta first

 

Any of you guys use Brewforia.com i just bought some from there I hope I chose well it was mostly because every where i went for velvet merlin it was sold out

 

LetsPour won't ship to Jersey so I have used halftimebeverage.com but they tend to be a bit pricey. Just ordered from luekensliquors.com as they were cheaper on just about every beer.

 

Best website I've ever used. Good communication, fast delivery (only a week from the order date!), and expert packaging. Excellent volume deals too. The only thing I've heard negatively about it is that the boxes sometimes get held up at customs.

 

beeronthewall.com ships to Texas. decent selection also

 

I think luekens is top notch.

 

I've had a box held up in customs. Took about 3 1/2 weeks.
I just assume it will take a while. It is coming from another continent after all.

They do know how to pack a box though

 

Yeah, their packaging, for lack of a better phrase, is unfreakinbelievable.