Gift ideas? Here’s what I found in a walk-through of a large Beverages and More store in Walnut Creek, CA.

Unibroue Gift Pack, $16.99: Two bottles each Maudite, a dark 8 percenter, La Fin Du Monde, 9 percent. Plus 1 bottle Ephemere, a 5.5 percent wheat ale; 1 bottle Trois Pistoles, 9 percent; 1 bottle Don De Dieu, 9 percent and 1 bottle Blanche De Chambly, 5 percent wit or white ale.

Don’t want to give that much beer? My recommendation, one 750 ml bottle of Unibroue Terrible, 10.5 percent, $7.99 or Unibroue 16, 10 percent, $9. Both come in elegant silk-screened bottles.

Half Yard of Ale Glass, made by Libbey, $14.99, holds 23 oz., comes with a wooden holder. This is the little brother of the Yard Glass, which I haven’t been able to find this year. Still an unusual present.

Christmas in Belgium Gift Pack, $19.99, includes 12 oz. or 11.2 oz. bottles of Pere Noel, Zinnebir X-mas, Serafijn Christmas Angel, Winterkininkske, and Kerstmutske. This most unusual gift pack comes from Shelton Brothers, Belchertown, MA. The only one I’ve tried is Pere Noel, which Tim Webb in his authoritative Good Beer Guide to Belgium describes as a “heavily sedimented, dark, bitter ale.” He gives it ***1/2 and I agree. Basically, anything fromt the Shelton Brothers is sure to be unusual and very drinkable.

Duvel Gift Pack, $15.99. Comes with four 11.2 oz. bottles of Duvel and the specially designed tuilip shaped Duvel glass. Highly reocommended.

Anheuser-Busch Michbelob Celebrate Christmas Pack; two 24 oz. bottles of Celebrate Chocolate and Celebrate Cherry, plus a glass. $24.99. Yes, it’s from A-B, but believe me these two are excellent. Both are 8.5 percent and all barley, no rice. There’s also a Budweiser Brewmaster’s Reserve, $21.99, big bottle and two glasses. For Bud lovers only.

Somewhere along the beer trail I tired of beer t-shirts from breweries or brewpubs I’ve visited and I’m way too shy to wear any of the funny beer t-shirts I’ve been given with slogans like: “Beer. It’s for breakfast” and “Beer is the answer, what’s the question?”

But beer glasses? I’m a sucker for beer glasses. I love to serve guests beer in glasses branded with the beer I’m serving. One of my big problems has always been that I get a single glass, sometimes with a bottle of beer in a holiday package. Where do I get more glasses to fill out the set.

Sure, there’s always been the web and God forbid, ebay. But who wants to pay $10 for a pub glass?

Things are changing. Just got an e-mail from Merchant du Vin, the Seattle-based importer of Samuel Smith’s from England and Orval from Belgium, among many others. They’re selling those pub glasses I covet for $2.95 plus shipping. Deal.I’m ordering five, to supplement my lone glass, which came in a kit with a bottle of Samuel Smith’s Pale Ale. I looked everywhere, but could never find another kit or the glass.

They also sell Orval chalices, the kind Orval is served in at bars in Belgium and at a few sophisticated bars in the U.S. They’re $5.95, but these are really nice glasses, thick glass with embossed lettering. Gonna order three of those as well to go with the single glass I got a couple of years ago with a bottle of Orval.

OK, it’s a little nuts, I admit. What can I say.