Copper kettle Mexican chocolate stout.... Bottled

I plan to age mine just a bit to see how it comes out. The beer is quite tasty, but with so much spice and cinnamon they batches can definitely range. Cannot wait for them to bottle their Bourbon County Breakfast Stout!

 

In town from Austin and tried this at epic beerfest. loved it. Went to copper kettle and bought a case. Hopefully it survives the fedex trip back. cannot wait to share with all my friends in Texas. The helles there was damn tasty as well. I also grabbed a couple MCS stickers to go on my kegerator at home. SCORE!

 

I didn't really like it, too hot.

 

lolwut?

 

That was a head-scratcher for me, too. $12.50 for a 750ml maybe...but 22oz?

 

It's $25 for a growler of it and worth every penny imho. I'll definitely have to get a bottle or two to lay down for a bit.

 

Yeah, it's not really that big of a value for anyone who is close enough to visit the brewery. I think they probably know that a lot of people come by and try it and get hooked. Those bottles are the answer to that problem.

 

Strange Brewing Dr. Strangelove: $20. higher ABV, but still expensive
Renegade Elevated Wood: $23+ sometimes. Since then the price has dropped dramatically because no one was buying it. 750ml bottle, and oak aged, but still wicked expensive.
Pretty much anything from Trinity up until this last distribution push. Bigger bottles, but the prices were still way too high. People still complain the $ for Slap yer mammy
There were others I remember seeing on the shelves and going into sticker shock, I just cant recall them offhand and really don't care enough to research.

The point is, comparatively speaking to some of the other *small* breweries who bottled their stuff, it's not a bad price. It's an expensive beer to make, so of course it isn't going to be $6/22oz like Lone Tree's beers. And the price/oz is barely higher than when buying a growler. Shocker, they need to raise the price some to pay for the bottling line, bottles and labels.

I'm not suggesting anyone has to like the price or buy the beer, but the confusion over the price simply doesn't make sense when plenty of precedents have already been set. Per usual, to each their own.

 

It may also be priced to reduce the demand. With a 3 barrel system and a 30 barrel fermentor, it would affect their other production if they had to constantly make the stout.

 

I agree, the precedent has certainly been set for new breweries to charge ridiculous prices for bottles of what is usually less than stellar beer. As long as the geeks keep buying it. Look at Bull and Bush. I like Man beer but $5-$6 per pint? No.

 

personally I'd rather just go to the breweries and drink the beer there as opposed to buy the bottles. But there are some I do buy bottles of because getting to the brewery, especially mid-week, is just too much, like my constant mood for a Yeti.
Fortunately for me, Copper Kettle is just down the road from where my wife works, so I will rarely need a reason to buy MCS bottles. But the bottle does allow me to send them to friends and as extras on trades. And I don't have a problem paying the premium on those occasions.
The curse of the small brewery is lower volume which increases the price/unit. Nevermind when a small brewery like CK buys their own bottling line. That's a solid chunk of overhead that needs to be recuperated. Maybe the price will come down once the line is paid for, maybe not. Either way I'm cool with it. And if people like the beer even half as much as my wife and I do and want it on hand, now they have the opportunity, even if it costs a bit more.
It's not cheap, but it really isn't that far out there either.

Man, is it hard to not get spoiled out here, or what? There are so many great options that we get to quibble about whether $12.50 is too much for 650ml, but not 750ml. Denver is freaking awesome.

 

I probably don't think as negatively about some of these beers as the opinion just expressed, but I definitely agree with the main point. It does seem as though too many beers are being priced based on what they expect customers willing to pay, not on actual value.

 

Agreed, that's why we all need to drink more River North! Never had an overpriced beer from them (even happily gifted their anniversary beer).

 

How 'bout this for an expensive beer? 2013 FFF Dark Lord. Count the ticket price of $30 with a limit of three bottles, that's $25 for a 22oz bottle of decent stout. Yes, I went, 'cause it's a shitload of fun and all but there are definitely better stouts out there (Avery Meph, Uncle Jacobs, MCS, any variant of Yeti just to name some locals). Depends on what your wallet allows; as the Mrs is constantly reminding me/us: "It's you beer geeks that are driving the market for breweries charging higher prices".

 

Five to six bones for a pint is a normal/decent price for just about anything anymore. I remember when breweries here charged $3.50 or less and was shocked to pay $5 or more a pint in Chicago at GI several years ago. Was pleasantly surprised to see that Revolution was charging $5 for most of their stuff when we had dinner there back in April. IF my wages were to keep up (or be even close to what I made even three years ago), I wouldn't hesitate to buy pints at $6-7 and bombers in the $15 or so range. Since that's not happening, I'm drinking on the cellar a LOT more and not adding as many of the new releases.

 

Saw it at Joy. $10.99. I will definitely buy this at some point but 4th of July is about quantity. Bought a 12 pack of swill instead.

I have to agree with over priced beer but didn't we create this market? Might be time for some self-regulation.

 

I think its a fair price for a pint at a bar but not a pint bottle. I think Russian River can get away with charging $5-$6 for a pint of Pliny because it is an exceptional beer. Man beer is good but it isn't exceptional.

 

We're getting into a personal quality scale economic model for beer pricing? Stop it. You guys are blowing my mind right now.

 

I'm sure you are willing to pay more for a barrel aged stout from Avery than you are a barrel-aged stout from Full Sail, amirite? Lesser quality breweries get away with charging these high prices because most geeks are really not that discriminating, they see limited and barrel-aged and just say oh I guess it should cost $22 per 750ml.