13 Best Spirits Subscription Boxes

The subscription market is booming. Everything from coffee, clothing, ready-to-eat meals and more has joined the traditional newspaper or magazine. This growth in the subscription market has spiked over the past couple of years especially, with an estimated increase of over $50 billion between 2021 and 2022. By 2026, this number is expected to be over $784 billion.

The main appeal behind most spirits-related subscriptions is the convenience of sampling. Whether you want to try a new cocktail or just a single spirit, it's often not worth buying an entire bottle or a list of ingredients. Subscription boxes save you money in the long run, allowing you to sample cocktails without committing to anything major.

There is a spirits subscription for every kind of drinker. If you are seeking out new single-malts or more exposure to modern mixology, or if you are a non-drinker who likes a great mocktail, here are the spirits subscriptions you ought to check out.

Mash & Grape is both a wine and spirits delivery service, and members of the spirits subscription are proudly part of the Mashbox Club. At Mash & Grape, you are able to select which type of product you sample every month based on the spirit category.

Categories to choose from include bourbon; whiskey, which includes Irish and rye; scotch; gin; tequila; and rum. Prices vary based on the category, understandably, with scotch being the most expensive at $79 per month and gin being the least expensive at $44 per month. You may ask why there is a fixed price for each bottle since products cost different amounts of money, but with Mash & Grape, you get much more than just a bottle of liquor. Each bottle sent to you is curated specifically to your own taste. Plus, each bottle comes with a tasting guide and background information about the brand, so you can learn what you like or do not like in any given spirit or which producers appeal to you the most.

Subscriptions start at three-month payments, but given the quality of the spirits you get, especially for the scotch category, the service definitely pays for itself. Bottles such as the Balvenie 14-Year Caribbean Cask are available, which is worth more than the price per month for the category.

Taster's Club is another alcohol subscription service that allows you to enjoy a wide variety of options without the hassle of guessing what you might like. Taster's Club memberships are also broken down by category, with choices consisting of bourbon, whiskey, scotch, gin, vodka, tequila, rum, and wine.

If you are not sure where to start or want to have a little of everything every month, there is also the Stock the Bar option, which sends members a different spirit each month of the subscription. Then, you can dig into different categories with excellent representations of each.

In addition to receiving tasting notes with each shipment from Taster's Club, you will also receive suggestions on how to enjoy each specific product. These can include the type of glassware to enjoy them out of, temperature, or even simple cocktails.

Taster's Club does encourage that every spirit it sends to members be sipped neat first, though, as the whole point of a subscription like this is to expand your palate for liquor. Memberships are available in 3-month, 6-month, and full-year prepayments as well as month to month and are priced differently based on which spirit club you choose.

Shaker & Spoon may be the most extensive subscription service on this list, with dozens of boxes to choose from, each one revolving around a single spirit category. Boxes by Shaker & Spoon include enough materials for four recipes and 12 drinks in total. However, this excludes alcohol, but though you have to use your own liquor, this service takes care of every other aspect of each drink. Plus, each box comes with a bottle recommendation that the curator believes will work best for that specific cocktail.

Shaker & Spoon also crafts its very own house-made ingredients for each box such as infused syrups and other proprietary ingredients. Not only do the box options span the entire spectrum of spirits, but they also include subcategories like reposado tequila and añejo boxes. Other boxes even revolve around lesser-known spirits like cachaça as well as around one single cocktail, like the Negroni Box.

Again, despite Shaker & Spoon not providing liquor in its boxes, you are still getting your money's worth. In addition to the recipes and ingredients needed for them, boxes include pictures of the cocktail so customers know what it should turn out like and what glassware or ice to use. Subscriptions can be bought for single-month, 3-month, 6-month, and full-year timeframes.

While other spirit subscriptions offer a variety of spirits, Sake Social focuses on only one. Given the countless styles and expressions of sake on the market, though, devoting an entire subscription to the spirit is more than justifiable. In case you do not know, sake is a Japanese spirit that is made from rice. It is not a hard liquor, as its alcohol content normally falls between 15% and 20%.

If you have never had exposure to sake or have only had very little, the depths of the spirit are vast. There are so many styles, brands, and price points that if you are a sake beginner, getting into the spirit really can be challenging.

When you join the Sake of the Month Club, you can choose between the Emperor and the Samurai packages. The Emperor package is characterized by smoother, more luxurious style sakes. These include styles like Daijingo and Ginjo, which are clean and gentle. The sakes sent in the Samurai subscription include fuller-bodied, more richly flavored, "everyday" sakes, as the brand calls them. There is quite a sizeable price difference between the two options, but no matter which one you choose, you get two full bottles every month.

Saloon Box is another cocktail kit subscription service, this one sending out subtle twists on classic cocktails. Past cocktails sent out by Saloon Box include a Bloody Maria, which swaps out the regular vodka in the drink with tequila, and another is a rye and ginger Old Fashioned. These reinventions of iconic drinks are what make every shipment of Saloon Box so interesting. You may have had the drink before, but never like this.

Saloon Box is an accessible and simple way to get to know the anatomy of a drink better and learn about how subtle changes make a big difference. Plus, with every single ingredient required included in each box, there is no need to track down any specific, uncommon items.

Another great aspect of Saloon Box is that it only sends the amount of liquor that you need, so instead of using a whole bottle of a liqueur and then setting it on your shelf to collect dust, you can use the amount sent to you and not waste anything. Not only does this service send new drinks every time, but the drinks are also seasonal, so more botanical, floral cocktails are sent in the springtime while more whiskey drinks are sent in the winter.

Crafted Taste sends its member's craft cocktails created by craft bartenders. If you are looking for traditional drinks, this may not be for you, but if you want exposure to modern mixology, this is the place to get it. Not only do boxes from Crafted Taste include great spirits brands, but they also include unique syrups, bitters, and mixers that you can only get from your subscription.

Each shipment of Crafted Taste includes full-size ingredients, and although you may be thinking that this means some of them will go to waste, the service sometimes provides additional uses for the ingredients beyond that month's recipe. So you get to mix craft cocktails and stock your home bar at the same time. If you do like the cocktail sent to you, and chances are you will, there are enough ingredients inside to mix over a dozen drinks.

In case you do not want to commit to full-sized bottles of liquor or mixers every month or with every shipment, Crafted Taste also offers miniature kits as well as kits that do not include any alcohol. These include the ingredients you need to make each drink, including a jigger, mint julep spoons, and even napkins, so all you need to do is supply the booze.