Postmates will now deliver beer to your doorstep
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Update: An earlier version of this story had the headline, “Postmates will now deliver beer to your doorstep, but none from local breweries.” Since then we’ve learned that the service will be adding local beer within the next week or so. From Salud Owner Jason Glunt, “Postmates approached us and they are slowly rolling out the inventory they will include local beer staring next week. I sent my inventory about a month ago and they tell me what I can put on the menu. I cannot add the available inventory myself.”
Postmates’ DRINKS service has landed in Charlotte.
In a blog post that went live last Friday, the food delivery service announced that with the arrival of DRINKS, your beer will be in your hands in 25 minutes or less, and that from here on out, “the run is done.”
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The DRINKS ordering process looks and feels the same as the food delivery portion of the app, and the beer comes from Salud in NoDa.
Beers are sorted by domestics, imports, favorites and options under $15, but not offered are local staples from Charlotte breweries.
Instead, brands include Allagash, Victory, Stiegl and Anderson Valley, and prices are along the same lines, if not slightly more expensive, as they would be in-store.
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The only noticeable difference is that when your beer arrives, you’ll be asked to whip out your ID for scanning.
True to form, I got to watch as my order was fulfilled and track it using the system’s live map (it did make it to my house in under 25 minutes), though Salud was sold out of my first choice (Anderson Valley Briney Melon Gose – summer in a can, essentially) and I was left to blindly trust the suggestion of the bartender.
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When the store does run out of a beer, Postmates get alerted, and, nine times out of ten, you’ll know before you pay.
Until the middle of October, the app is offering free delivery (as well as free delivery on orders of $30 or more after the timeframe has passed).
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The full list of beers available:
- Allagash Black Stout ($13.74)
- Allagash Curieux Ale ($20.34)
- Allagash Tripel Ale ($14.29)
- Allagash Saison Ale ($11.99)
- Allagash White Ale ($12.09)
- Anchorage Calabaza Boreal Northward Saison ($18.69)
- Anderson Valley Briney Melon Gose ($14.29)
- Ballast Point Mango Even Keel Session Ale ($13.99)
- Bells Two Hearted Ale ($8.99)
- Boulevard Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale ($13.19)
- Brouwerij Lindemans Cuvee Rene Grand Cru Oude Kriek Lambic Ale ($15.39)
- Brouwerij Lindemans Framboise Lambic ($7.69)
- Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA ($11.99)
- Deschutes Pacific Wonderland Lager ($11.99)
- Dragon’s Milk Bourbon Barrel Stout ($17.49)
- Founders All Day Session IPA ($24.19)
- Founders Porter ($11.99)
- Great Divide Roadie Grapefruit Radler ($13.19)
- Lagunitas 12th of Never Ale ($7.99)
- Lagunitas Imperial Stout ($5.49)
- North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout ($10.99)
- Off Color Troublesome Gose ($13.99)
- Rochefort 6 Dubbel ($7.69)
- Rochefort 10 Quadrupel ($7.69)
- Rochefort 8 Belgian Strong Dark Ale ($7.69)
- Sixpoint Resin IIPA ($14.29)
- St. Bernardus Abt 12 Belgian Abbey Ale ($20.89)
- Stiegl Grapefruit Radler ($13.19)
- Stone Delicious IPA ($14.29)
- Victory Golden Monkey ($14.29)
- Victory Prima Pils ($13.19)
- Victory Sour Monkey ($14.29)
- Wells Banana Bread Beer ($13.19)
- Westmalle Trappist Dubbel ($7.69)
- Westmalle Trappist Tripel ($7.69)