Sculpin price drop

Since Ballast Point doesn't set the price you pay I'd bet it’s the retailer trying to move the beer off the shelves because its getting old.

Remember that in general a Brewery sells beer to a distributor who then sells it to a retailer who then sells it to you. So the price drop can occur at any point in the chain.

 

You may be able to answer your own question. Go to the store and check the dates on the bottles.

 

Yes, and it might mean that the distributor is selling it cheaper to the retailer and BP has already used up their old lablels.

As for the price going back up, I'd be willing to bet it will. If only because price increases are so much more likely than price decreases. And if we had access to the information I'd be willing to bet it has nothing to do with the labels and everything to do with the age of the beer. Several breweries I know of have changed labels and simply continued to use the old ones till they were gone and then switched to the new ones.

 

it's $14.99 a sixer here in NJ, even when it's as fresh as NJ gets (2-3 weeks from bottling(, I've passed it up as of late. don't get me wrong it's a great beer.. and the $14.99/sixer ($0.208/oz) is much better then when NJ only saw bombers and they were $8-9/ea ($0.409/oz).. For those who have the sixers of cans or twelve packs of cans, what does that format run? I'd be more inclined to pick up sculpin at $13.49 sixer ($0.1874/oz.. equatable to say Hoptimum at $8.99/4 pack ($0.1873/oz)

 

Just depends on where you go. I routinely see six packs of Sculpin bottles from $11.99 (Total Wine in Huntington Beach) all the way up to $17.99 (Bristol Farms in Newport Beach).

Total Wine dropped the bottle prices when the cans came out, and cans are always $2 to $3 more than the bottles for some reason.

Ballast Point does use bottling dates, so check before you buy.

 

Never even seen a sixer of Sculpin around here. Only seen bombers of Ballast Point and they are pricey.

 

Sculpin certainly can use a price drop.. very good IPA but overpriced.

 

$9.99 growler fills for me.

 

Not that its an option for everyone but I got a price of $115 locally for a sixtel keg of Sculpin (5.2g) which works out to $0.1727/oz.

 

Its only $13.99 in MA with 6 packs now available. Big Eye dropped from $14.99 to $11.99 with the new labels.

 

Total Wine had bottle sixers for 13.99. Then the cans came out at 13.99 and bottles went to 11.99. And they recently got the new bottles. Label's the same as the can now.

 

Good, because it's overpriced as hell. I'd choose West Coast over Sculpin all day.

 

demand decrease, supply increase = price decrease

 

I did get like 3 bombers a few months ago @ $2.49 a piece because they were 2 months out of date, that was nice. Still tasted the same.

 

In theory, you are correct. However, outside of extraoridnary situations all changes in pricing strategy begins and ends with the supplier. Changes in FOBs will lead to List changes, and ultimately retail prices but, a good supplier builds their price structures backwards, starting with retailer margin requirements and targeted shelf price.

Distributors have a margin percentage that they hover around (or contract depending on supplier scale) and retailers the same. It would be a cold day in the pits of hell for a retailer to run leaner on their own dime.