Apr 082020
 

Guest Post by Jet Gift Baskets

How do you make your gifts more special other than ensuring they’re the recipients’ favorite food or drink, hobby set, color, brand, accessory, or quite simply, something they love? How do you make gift-giving a little more exciting and memorable for your partner, your best friend, your golf buddy, your mom-in-law or just about anybody you know who deserves it?

Easy.

While knowing you’ve given it a lot of thought and ensuring that it’s something your recipient really likes or love, don’t take for granted the idea that there’s actually more you can do to make it more special. Give your presents a more personal touch like a short message or note or wrap it up yourself no matter how messy it will turn out to be or place it on their favorite spot in the house. Do that and be ready to get a smothering or a tight bear hug or a thank-you with a big smile—something you’ll never forget not for the rest of their lives but of yours.

Okay, so how about your beer lover family and friends, what exactly will they love to get for their birthday, an anniversary, the holidays, or even for no occasion at all?

Let’s start with the Pirates’s Gift Bag. This is prolly the best surprise you can give your 4-year-old daughter or your toddler nephew whose entire world revolves around their pirate ship and all their mighty conquests in their imaginative worlds of play. This gift basket makes for the perfect present for the young pirate-at-heart or perhaps the discerning root beer connoisseur for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, with its Jack Black’s Root Beer, gourmet popcorn, gummy candies, and trail mix they sure would love to share with everyone!

Perhaps you prefer your beer to be not of the root variety.

Enjoying your favorite cold fizzy drink shouldn’t be a once-in-a-blue-moon thing! Surprise your best buddy or go-to office partner or favorite brother-in-law with the Blue Moon Meat Snacker that they can enjoy by themselves or shared with others anytime of the week or on their favorite holiday: the weekends! Packed with Blue Moon Beers and the perfect snacks to go with it—beef sticks, summer sausage and two types of pretzels—surely, this is one beer gift basket every beer lover will want to have!

It’s no secret that great food comes with great company that’s why everyone just loves a great barbecue with family and friends! So the next time Lucy from down the block invites you for a birthday barbecue for her hubby Ben or your boss invites you for a weekend get-together with the boys at work, make sure to bring the barbecue monster beer gift basket for the host: the BBQ Crunch Time Snacker. No doubt you’ll pump up the happy and enjoyable vibes of the bbq party with great beer and gourmet snacks everyone loves!

Now, this beer gift basket idea is definitely one for the books! The wooden beer carrier with bottle opener that comes with Personal Beer Caddy is every beer lover’s dream! And that’s only one of the surprises . . . as this gift basket—that’s perfect to give to celebrate a birthday, a promotion, a long weekend or simply, finally getting that driver’s license— comes full packed with extraordinary gourmet treats of pretzels, crackers, summer sausage, and one Jalapeno & Monterey cheese bar, and of course Longboard beer!

Celebrate Friendship Day with your girlfriends and/or boyfriends or Siblings Day with the entire family with a cozy brunch in the backyard or at the family’s lakehouse! And don’t forget to pack up and bring along this beer gift basket worthy of a big celebration in itself! Our Let’s Day Drink comes overflowing with mixed nuts and sesame seeds, gourmet sausage and meats, and delish treats of cheeses, Cucina and Amore Bruschetta, candied pecans among others, together with no less than a six-pack of Shock Top beer. Cheers!

With our extensive collection of beer gift baskets at Jet Gift Baskets, you’ll never run out of gift ideas for your beer lover families and friends.

With or without an occasion, surely, your recipient will love to get one or two from our amazing selection of gift baskets that has been artfully curated to make sure every basket is filled with no less than delicious treats of gustatory favorites that are sure to warm their hearts.

Jan 292020
 

Pennsylvania Dutch Candies Root Beer Flavored Rock Candy Crystal Stick

Pennsylvania Dutch Candies started as a specialty candy store in Mount Holly Spring, PA back in the 60’s. In 1965 it was bought by The Warrell Corporation and began expansion. Today they can be found in all 50 states. One of those states is Minnesota, where my son found these at a local grocery store and got me this (and some other candies) for Christmas because he knew I needed to try it and write about it. How thoughtful. That’s the best sort of Christmas gift, in my opinion. Something useful, needed, and won’t take up space in the house. He nailed it. Anyways, back to the root beer rock candy stick.

The flavor is standard generic minty root beer that isn’t too strong or too weak. It has a more creamy flavor than old fashioned flavor, which I prefer. The texture, should you choose to crunch it, is that strange rock candy crystal texture, which is fun at first but then sort of annoying, unless you like that, then it’s great.

Overall, it’s a pretty solid root beer hard candy. It gives you the flavor you expect without being unpleasant in anyway. It’s also got that strange rock candy crystal texture. What else could you want?




Jan 222020
 

A&W Gummy Soda Bottles

My final Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store post (from this past year’s journey at least). This is also made by Kenny’s Candy. They’re gummy soda bottles, obviously. They have several brand name flavors, but we only care about these root beer ones. I love gummies. They are probably my favorite type of candy. This is my first experience with root beer gummies, so I had high hopes for this, especially because they are made with A&W Root Beer concentrate, which is a good root beer. Though, usually gummies are fruity, there’s spice drops, and those are gummy and yummy. Root beer can be spicy too, so it could work.

There’s a very mild root beer flavor that has a slight wintergreen aftertaste. If you eat a lot of them, that wintergreen builds a bit, but really it’s hard to tell. They are really bland actually, with little root beer and even very little sweetness. It really tastes like gelatin more than anything. Gelatin with some wintergreen.

These are actually really bad. They don’t really have flavor, other than that hint of wintergreen. I eat them and eat them, yet they don’t get any better. I’ve had failed attempts at root beer candy before, but these have got to be the worst, sadly. I don’t even recommend trying these for the experience. Hopefully I’ll find some good root beer gummies some day.