The Holiday Drinker’s Guide To Buying Beer

Avoid the nightmare before Christmas

The much awaited Christmas season is finally here and it, as usual, brings along with it a craze for stocking up on beer. As much as we love to get into the true spirit of Christmas — you know, the joy of giving and all that jazz — the truth is, beer drinking has become synonymous with the holiday season.

Beer shopping may be a mundane weekly routine, but your liquor store sweep during the biggest holiday of the year can be intimidating. These easy festive drinking preparation tips will allow you to keep Christmas time this season to be jolly instead of running around stressing about not having enough beer.

After all, you deserve a beer after wrestling over that last Barbie on the shelf. 

Get ahead of the game

Early Christmas beer shopping saves all that last-minute rushing around. Think about how much you would enjoy Christmas if you finished your booze run early! You could have more time to help the kids decorate the tree or finalize Christmas day plans. A week from now, you will find yourself kindly trying not to laugh at all those panicked shoppers trundling past your window in a frantic effort to stock up their fridges.

Avoid mad rushes  

Before you head off to the liquor store, you need to think about avoiding the busy times as your brothers and sisters-in-indulgence will have the same goal of getting their booze stash finalized. If possible, plan your visit for a weekday morning, and not just after work or on a Saturday.

Buy in bulk

There’s nothing worse than running out of beer during a holiday gathering. This embarrassing moment calls for two plans of action: drive up to the liquor shop under the effect of alcohol and risk getting a DUI. Or refer the beer drinkers to the punch bowl. Either way, running out of stock is no fun. So take the easy route and sort yourself out with lots of beer from these joints – your guests will be boozed from the time they arrive to the time you bid them adieu in their Uber. 

Get your beer delivered

So after last night’s bar crawl, you’re planning on staying in your pajamas all day, but now you have to go beer shopping because the in-laws are coming over for supper. Well, who says you still can’t stay in your pajamas? With an on-demand alcohol delivery website like Pinkdot, you can literally get your favorite beers delivered straight to your door just with the swipe of your finger.

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So there you have it: our top tips for tackling your festive beer run like a pro. If you haven’t already started planning, now is the time to get stuck into your seasonal beer shopping. Or at the very least start thinking about it. Your sanity will thank you.