Is draft a deal breaker?

Virtually always draft at a bar. I've been to a couple of restaurants that do a phenomenal job with their bottle/can selection and will happily enjoy their offerings.

 

If that happens ask for a wine glass.

 

Difference being you can't buy a glass of beer at a store...at least in some states like California. Other than that point, we're in agreement.

 

Having followed your CAN quest for a while now, I'm surprised you wouldn't give it a name that has the word "CAN" in it.

The CANtina? CANnery Row?

 

Fair enough...although such a bar is an outlier it does disprove my point.

 

Maybe if we open a seCANed loCANtion.

 

I know the places that I frequent. Most have great fresh draft selections. Sometimes I go to different places and drink a bottle or some wine. Any of this is no problem for me.

 

I did not know that. Is this true for every state or is this a Florida thing? Why do bars pay more?

Cheers!

 

Huge! At least the places I've gone mark up on bottles is crazy.

 

I've had a few bad experiences with bad draft beer, some of it from bad lines from the keg to tap, and/or some from kegs that haven't sold well. I avoid places with more than 6 taps unless I know the draft beer is fresh. There is no need to order a bottle of beer in a restaurant or bar in most cases.

 

It might differ from state to state, but as I understand it, many states have laws that wholesalers must offer their products to all licensees, regardless of on- or off-premise (or combined), for the same price and offer the same quantity discounts to all.

 

I would want draft options. Many of the brews I seek are draft/growler only or mainly. So its the best option to try them.

 

JK, I know the owners/beer buyers of several PA bars/restaurants and they obtain their beer from wholesale distributors. I assume the pricing structure is the same but I really don't know for a fact.

Cheers!

 

In North Carolina it is illegal to charge different prices for the same product to various customers (on the same day) - on-premise, retail, etc. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but the law is on the books. Monday delivery usually suffices for special pricing.

 

There would be no reason to go to the bar/restaurant and pay the associated markup. If I want top quality bottle selections, I'm going to the bottle shop instead.

 

You've got that reversed :

Bars/restaurant = On Premise
Liquor/grocery stores selling packaged goods = Off Premise.​

Yeah, interesting. Looks like Florida law allows a distributor to charge different prices for a variety of reasons, one of which is license type, as long as the price is registered with the state.

But I'd think it's safe to say, in regard to the question posed in this thread, that that is somewhat unusual but the 50+1 sets of alcoholic beverage laws in the US is always gonna make trouble in these sorts of threads. It would be interesting to find out what the difference in price is.

 

If they are an establishment here in NC they can't legally serve any beer not distributed that I could not purchase myself. There's little chance I would walk in and they have bottles of Pliny on sale as an example. So I would also opt for draft beer, if the beer is good those pony kegs don't last long enough to go bad. I'm just careful with slow moving beer from a place with 120 taps. Besides I've always like sitting relaxing and having a few beers on tap, always have even when I was 16 and most places back home served Bud or Schaefer, that was it.