Jester King Pricing

Of course no one will bite on an offer of Endeavour for KBS because they are trading a limited beer for a shelf beer. Same thing with Pliny. Its actually pretty hard to trade any TX IPAs since none of them are technically rare, but I have included them as extras or to equalize the trade. What I am trying to say is if you are trading shelf beers for shelf beers than you can get anything that they have readily available for an equal price. If you are trading for rare stuff, then you can get it done with an equal value of local rare stuff.

 

Were Funk and Boxer's distributed to Cali? When I was there a few months back, Northern California had the regular line up collecting dust. Prices were around the same as I pay locally, but my local shop isn't working on an exclusive deal to carry Cantillon, like Gabriel's on 1604.

Edit: I can say the same thing about every major city I have traveled to in the last year. (except Philly, but everyone knows their single bottle prices are ridiculous)

 

Not sure about Boxers, but RU and Funk made it to San Diego. A trade partner there got them for cheap. $11.85 a bottle if I recall correctly.

 

I don't doubt it one bit. If I were still inclined to trade for JK I would ask my RS trustee to goandpickitupformebro.

 

Jeez, wonder why TX pays more than Cali for local beer......

 

The guy you like so much said that they will be getting 100 cases of BCBS next week

disclaimer: that was a joke

 

Taxes

 

Just feel better than their cost of living is about 2x of ours when you take into account state income tax, higher property taxes, and just about everything else costing more.

 

I don't think there's a $4 tax on a 750ml beer here in Texas that isn't on beer in Cali.

More likely it's priced to attract new customers in a new market. Or, it wasn't selling and was discounted by the retailer.

 

I do all my trading on Reddit. The community is great here but in my opinion only in this forum... The trading is way better on Reddit.

 

I agree less people try to "win" a trade on Reddit and are generally more pleasant to deal with.

 

What a wonderful rumor to start. I appove of this.

However, the above Cantillon comment was a legit claim by said beer guy. He also mentioned Russian River. 3 years and still waiting.

Edit: Wanted to point out I don't like anyone in the beer community. Just kidding or am I?

 

We have distributors who jack our prices up. Try to find the E1stgrocery (Whatever their screen name is) in response to Jeff's post on what they sell JK beers to the distributor for. HUGE markup that shocked Sam.


**EDIT** Here you go http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/jester-king-craft-brewery.80620/#post-1169891

 

Exactly.

 

I have ideas of why beer is so expensive locally.
A. a 3-tiered distribution system
B. the taxes within that system(everyone pays so much for license to brew, label, distribute, and sell that they have to keep raising prices due to overhead)
C. The government and Capitalism. Yep, conspiracy toward beer. Frack'n Obama. Y'all do realize we are supposed to blame him for everything, right?

 

You hit it spot on

 

Don't do it! Will isn't all he's cracked up to be!

Just kidding! He's totally worthy of some beer love.

 

Is that how they make that banana beer? Is Obama responsible for banana beer? Is Obama's homebrew made that way?

I'm confused.

As far as trading location, there are good people and dicks everywhere.

I've yet to find a trading partner that has tried to win. Most of the time it ends up being both of us trying to one up the other person by sending better boxes. This way both people win.

 

capitalism FTW!

 

15-20 for those 3
the year round lineup are 8-12.