🎄 12 Weeks of Christmas Beers (most popular)
Start in early October, hold exchange night, then open one mystery beer every week right up to Christmas. Weekly pacing gives everyone time to savour, rate, and argue about who brought what.
🎁 12 Days of Christmas
The classic sprint: open one drink a day from December 13 to 24 (or the traditional December 25 to January 5). Pick the "daily" pace and the app handles the rest.
📅 Adult advent calendar
Want 24 days? Make it a group of 24, or have smaller groups bring two each. Use "spread evenly to an end date" so the countdown lands right on Christmas Eve.
📝 Christmas wish list edition
Everyone picks a drink from their own wish list — the bottle they've always wanted to try, a favourite from a local brewery, or something from a trip. Add the story in the "Why did you pick it?" box and it shows up at the reveal.
🍻 Weekend warriors
Choose the alternating Fri–Sun / Mon–Thu schedule or weekends-only, so drinks land when people actually have time to enjoy them.
🎂 Milestone birthdays
Turning 30, 40 or 50? Friends each bring a drink, and the birthday crew counts down the weeks to the party.
💍 Weddings, stags and bachelorettes
Count down to the big day with a swap among the wedding party. Use the Wedding theme and reveal everything at the stag or bachelorette.
🍷 Wines, ciders, seltzers and spirits
Change the item word when you create the group: wine clubs, cider fans and seltzer lovers all play the same way.
🧃 Non-alcoholic swaps
Mocktails, craft sodas, kombucha, teas, coffees, hot sauces — set a custom item word and the whole app follows along. Great for sober friends, families and workplaces.
🏢 Office and team swaps
A low-effort, inclusive holiday activity: small groups of 6–8, a weekly pace, and a big reveal at the holiday party.
🔧 Make up your own
Those are ideas, not settings you're stuck with. The group size is yours to choose — 2, 6, 12, 24 or more — and everyone simply brings one drink per person. The occasion is yours too: Christmas, a birthday, a wedding, a housewarming, a sports season, or no occasion at all. And the calendar is whatever suits your crew: set any start date, any end date, and a pace of weekly, weekends, alternating Fri–Sun / Mon–Thu, daily, or spread evenly between your two dates. A two-week sprint and a six-month countdown both work.