The Best Pickle of the Month Clubs

Buy on Mouth

Why We Chose It: Mouth's exceptional combination of variety and value wins it the title of best overall.

Mouth is an online specialty food store that partners with hundreds of artisan producers from all around the United States. In the "Meet Your Maker" section, you can learn about all the craftspeople whose items are featured on Mouth, from butchers to bakers and others.

Mouth's pickle collection, from which it draws its monthly selections, contains upward of 80 different products, including Garlic Dill Cucumber Pickles, Pickled Grape Tomatoes, Sriracha Pickled Green Beans, Sauerkraut, Pickled Peaches, Organic Heirloom Pickled Blueberries, and many, many more. Click around; it's fun to explore all the different products and learn about the folks behind them.

Mouth's Pickles Every Month subscription includes four jars per month. The mix of products emphasizes cucumbers, with a jar or two of more offbeat items to add variety. Plans are flexible. You can subscribe month to month for a recurring charge of $60, or you can save when prepay for three, six, or 12 months upfront. Either way, there's no extra charge for shipping.

Buy on Amazingclubs.com

Why We Chose It: Amazing Clubs' They'll Love It guarantee means your loved one will know what's coming and can act accordingly.

Amazing Clubs is one of the best-known gourmet monthly gift companies. Founded in 2003 with only a single club, Amazing Clubs proved immediately successful. It then expanded rapidly, and today it has more than 40 different clubs, including Pickle of the Month.

Amazing Clubs is great for gifting given its "They'll Love It" guarantee. It works like this: When you give Amazing Clubs as a gift, enter your recipient's email address at checkout. Amazing Clubs won't spoil the surprise, but it will email your loved one after their first shipment to let them know what's coming next and allow them to skip that shipment for any reason.

Amazing Clubs' Pickle of the Month Club ships two different 16- to 24-ounce jars per month. In this club, it's all about cucumbers—no carrots, cauliflower, blueberries, and so on. Past selections have included garlic dill slices, sweet and spicy pickle chips, and passion habanero pickles. This isn't an ongoing subscription, either. You sign up for a fixed period of three, six, or 12 months. There's also a seasonal option that ships two jars every three months for a year. Each month costs around $33.95. You can either pay per shipment or pay for all shipments upfront. Shipping is free.

Buy on Lemonbirddesign.com

Why We Chose It: Lemon Bird will blow your mind with its hand-crafted collectible curiosity pickles.

In sunny Southern California, the year-round growing season brings forth a bounty of beautiful boutique produce. The region is rich with small farms conjuring fruits and vegetables from the earth like precious gems. Lemon Bird captures these crops at the height of their seasons and preserves them for future months.

Lemon Bird specializes in pickles and jams, and all of its seasonal produce comes from local farms. The esoteric inventory includes unique products like preserved Meyer lemons with ras el hanout, garlic scapes with spring herbs, preserved pomelo kosho (a citrus fruit that's pickled), and hay smoked preserved limes. There are no half-sours or kosher dills, but there are biquinho peppers.

Through Lemon Bird's Pickle of the Month Club, you'll receive pickled cucumbers and other vegetables. You can get four jars for about $85, six jars for around $125, and 12 jars for about $250. You pay for everything upfront, and then the jars ship in pairs every six to eight weeks. Shipping is included.

Buy on Olympiaprovisions.com

Why We Chose It: Olympia Provisions is primarily a charcuterie company, so its pickles play especially well with meats and cheeses.

Named to a list of "America's Best Charcuterie" by Bon Appetit, Olympia Provisions of Portland also holds the distinction of being Oregon's first USDA-approved salumeria. Since its founding in 2009, Olympia has speedily garnered an impressive stack of awards and accolades, primarily for its charcuterie. Sure, Olympia is hyper-focused on meat products, but it also has a master pickler on staff.

That's because, as a traditional salumeria, Olympia knows that pickles are the yang to charcuterie's yin. All that savory earthiness of old-world craft salumi needs the bright punch of a crunchy pickle to balance it out. The profoundly satisfying contrast keeps our palate wanting more.

Olympia calls its subscription program Postal Provisions. You can mix and match across different product categories to create a custom subscription, basically a complete high-end spread shipped to your door every month. The pickle category costs around $15 per shipment and includes one jar of selections like pickled onion, celery, beets, bread and butter zucchini, cauliflower, asparagus, and so on. Subscriptions are month-to-month. You can modify or cancel your order at any time, and shipping is free.

Buy on Pacificpickleworks.com

Why We Chose It: Pacific Pickle Works likes to pack a few peppers in with its pickles.

In 2001, Bradley Bennett started making spicy pickles in his Santa Barbara, California home kitchen using local produce. Ten years later, the first Pacific Pickle Works jars began to appear in local stores. Customers loved them, and today, partly thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, Pacific Pickle Works ships its pickles nationwide.

Pacific Pickle Works is known for the fanciful names it gives its products. That's the company's way of making sure the spice inside is reflected on the label. Check out varieties like ¡ay cukarambas!, mother's puckers, pickles under the ginfluence, carriots of fire, and brussizzle sprouts. If your palate is a little sensitive, don't worry. The heat in Pacific's pickles comes primarily from jalapeno peppers, so the burn isn't excessive—just enough to give your tongue a little wake-up call.

Pacific's pickle club comes in two flavors: gherkin and big dill. Both last for one year, with four shipments that come once every three months. The gherkin includes two jars per shipment for about $125. The big dill gets you four jars per shipment for around $205. Shipping is included.

Buy on Picklelicious.com

Why We Chose It: If you require authentic Kosher pickles by the gallon, Pickle Licious is the service for you.

Robyn Samra grew her fledgling pickle business from a single booth at her local flea market to regular spots at 45 farmers markets, a brick-and-mortar retail store, a website, and numerous wholesale accounts. Along the way, Samra enlisted her husband and two daughters, and Pickle Licious became a family business.

Located in Teaneck, New Jersey, Pickle Licious today supplies pickles to much of the tri-state area, known for its insatiable appetite for New York deli-style Kosher pickles. Authenticity is a theme that frequently appears in customer testimonials on the Pickle Licious site.

Pickle Licious carries a wide range of products, but the subscriptions focus on olives and its classic Kosher pickles. Five pickle varieties are available for subscription: full sour, half-sour, kosher dill, hot and spicy, and horseradish, plus more than a dozen different varieties of olives.

Pickle Licious offers six subscriptions, all variations on different sized containers of pickles and olives arriving monthly for three or six months. A six-month subscription of one-gallon jars (about 40 pickles), for instance, is about $150, while a three-month subscription for a pint of olives plus a quart of pickles sells for around $60. Shipping is extra.

Buy on Monthclubstore.com

Why We Chose It: One jar or two, sweet, sour or mixed, Month Club Store lets you customize your pickle of the month selections.

Month Club Store has been in the monthly gift game for well over a decade. The company is staffed with experts skilled at finding unique items and delivering them to hungry enthusiasts month after month. There's an exciting and eclectic roster of products, with clubs like Potato Chip, Cigar, Soup, Mustard, and, yes, Pickle of the Month.

Month Club Store gets a leg up on Amazing Clubs when it comes to flexibility. With its Pickle of the Month Club, you can choose to receive one jar or two, alter the delivery frequency, and specify the flavor profile. The one thing you can't do is pay monthly. All club charges are upfront and nonrecurring.

Flavors include three choices: All Sweet, No Sweet and variety. Month Club Store mostly sticks to cucumbers, eschewing other pickled vegetables. Past selections include a curated blend of whole pickles, spears, slices, and cornichons from a variety of small gourmet producers.

Costs depend on the number of jars you'll receive. The more you order, the better the value. A three-month, one-jar membership sells for about $55, while a 12-month, two-jar membership costs about $280. (That's five times the price for eight times the pickles.) Shipping is included.