John Lewis Beer & Snack Advent Calendar
£90.00
The John Lewis Beer Advent Calendar 2026 packs 24 full-size products behind its 24 doors: 14 craft beers in 330ml cans, split into 5 lagers and helles, 3 pale ales and 6 IPAs, plus 10 savoury snacks, with no minis and no samples. Breweries run from Beavertown Neck Oil to Brew York and Tiny Rebel, the snacks from Serious Pig cheese to Love Corn. A John Lewis exclusive, pitched at adult beer lovers who want the fridge stocked, not a chocolate countdown.
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AI Summary
- 24 full-size products behind 24 doors: 14 craft beers and 10 savoury snacks, no minis
- 14 x 330ml cans, about 4.62 litres of beer from 8 independent breweries
- Signature cans include Beavertown Neck Oil Session IPA and Brew York’s hazy IPAs
- Snacks run from Serious Pig Crunchy Snacking Cheese to Dormen Bombay Mix
- A premium John Lewis exclusive at £90, pitched at adult beer lovers
John Lewis Beer & Snack Advent Calendar 2026: 14 craft beers and 10 snacks, all full-size
The John Lewis Beer Advent Calendar 2026 is a John Lewis exclusive that fills its 24 doors with drink and food you can actually finish: 14 craft beers in 330ml cans and 10 savoury snacks, every one full-size. No thimble measures, no sample sachets. It opens like a drinks fridge counting down to Christmas rather than a chocolate box, which is the whole point.
The line-up leans hard on independent British breweries. Beavertown, Brew York, Big Smoke, Seven Bro7hers, Tiny Rebel, Toast and Jiddlers Tipple all feature, so you move from crisp lagers through pale ales to hazy IPAs across the month. It is a premium pick, and the price reflects that.
Content and value of the John Lewis Beer & Snack Advent Calendar 2026
Behind the 24 doors sit 14 beers and 10 snacks, nothing padding the count. The beers split roughly into five lagers and helles (Big Smoke Pilsner and Helles, Beavertown Bones, Jiddlers Tipple Bog Standard, Tiny Rebel 313), three pale ales (Toast Grassroots, Beavertown Gamma Ray, Seven Bro7hers New England) and six IPAs and session IPAs, including Beavertown Neck Oil and Brew York’s Time Travelling Taxi. That spread is the thing to check: eight separate breweries, no style repeated to pad the box.
The snacks are proper portions too, from Serious Pig Crunchy Snacking Cheese to Dormen Luxury Bombay Mix and Filberts Salt & Pepper Cashews. With 14 cans of 330ml, you are looking at 4.62 litres of beer, close to eight pint bottles’ worth.
John Lewis has not published a total content value for this calendar, so I will not invent one. On price alone, splitting the £90 launch price across the 24 products works out at £3.75 per item, which for named full-size craft beer and branded snacks is fair rather than cheap.
What changed since the 2025 John Lewis beer calendar
The format has not moved: the 2025 edition held the same 14 full-size beers and 10 full-size snacks across 24 doors, with no minis then either. What moved is the price, up from £85 to £90, and most of the brewery list.
Fresh in for 2026: Beavertown, Brew York, Big Smoke, Seven Bro7hers, Tiny Rebel and Jiddlers Tipple. Out go Thornbridge, Freedom, Harviestoun, 1814, Cold Bath, Old Jock and Spey Valley. Toast is the one brewery that stays. On snacks, Love Corn, Serious Pig, New York Delhi and Dormen return, while Filberts and Sassy Franks arrive and Olly’s, Made for Drink and Salty Dog drop out. So you pay £5 more for a near-total refresh of the beer, not a bigger box.
My view on the John Lewis Beer & Snack Advent Calendar 2026
What wins me over is the full-size honesty: 24 doors, 24 things worth opening, and not a single 150ml tease. Plenty of drinks calendars hide behind miniatures, and this one simply does not. The brewery curation is strong too, with Beavertown and Brew York doing real work rather than filler names.
Where it gives me pause is the price. At £90, this is a treat, and the £5 rise buys a changed list rather than more cans. As I’d put it: ‘you’re paying for who brewed it, not how much of it there is’. The 4.62 litres is good value for named craft beer, less so if you just want volume.
- Not for anyone chasing cheap volume or a chocolate advent calendar for the family.
- Very much for adult beer lovers who want a tour of independent British breweries, one proper can a day.
John Lewis discount and delivery on the beer advent calendar
There is no discount code for this calendar at the time of writing. John Lewis rarely runs voucher codes on exclusives like this one, so I would not wait on one.
Delivery is the softener: free standard UK delivery on John Lewis orders over £70, and at £90 this calendar clears that on its own. For other live deals, see our hot deals on advent calendars.
Where to buy the John Lewis Beer & Snack Advent Calendar 2026
This calendar is a John Lewis exclusive, so it is sold in one place: John Lewis. You will not find it at Boots, M&S or the supermarkets.
It carries an over-18 age check at the till, as any alcohol calendar does. Compare the live price at the top of this page before you buy.
Find all the current advent calendar hot deals here.
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