Most OverPriced (OverValued) Beer?

Than don't even look at how much great divide charges for their barrel aged beers. Honestly I have no problem paying a decent premium for barrel aging, it does cost the brewery more to buy the barrel and store it for the aging time. I just don't like it when a $2-3 12 oz bottle turns into something that is 20+ a bomber.

 

just had my lost abbey track 10....not bad but ridiculously overpriced for IMO slightly above average bourbon barrel stout. when bcbs is 50% less in price and way better I will probably never buy a lost abbey beer again.

 

There is no such thing as price gouging. If the market will not bear the price asked you will get shelf turds. Shelf turds make no profit. Price gets lowered to move said turd. Those too slow to react to market forces liquidate assets to those who can make proper adjustments to the market demands. One hundred people standing in line for an 'overpriced' beer are a living breathing argument against the premise of price gouging.
To the Maine Beer Company comments. I don't know what it cost a bar in NYC for a sixtel but its around $90 for me. I would feel like a rat bastard selling it for $9 a pour. $5 a shaker pint and $8 a 22 baby, that's how I roll.

 

Everything from Lost Abbey... Seriously, $16 for a 12oz bottle is just greedy.

 

As an Oklahoma City local, I pay $5.99 for PAA Bomb! I'm not sure how the prices double after it leaves the OKlahoma market. Unfortunate though, they make some great brews. Not sure if PAA has control over the prices after distributors and store mark it up.

 

Only just now realized how much Small Town's Brewery's stuff costs...a six pack of NYF's Root Beer or NYF's Ginger Ale costs more than some of the better craft options (roughly $14/6 around here). I haven't had the ginger ale one because I don't even like regular ginger ale, but I've had the root beer on two separate occasions with vastly different experiences. The first was at a party when I was already a little tipsy and I thought it tasted okay, like hard root beer. There were a couple leftover in the fridge a few days later so I tried it again sober and hated every second of it: it was just like root beer with a splash of cheap vodka. Can't believe what it costs in the store when for wayyy less I could do just that at home for a fraction of the price.

 

If you bought it... you wanted it. You got what you wanted regardless of price.

 

^ Is that directed at me specifically? Because I didn't buy them. A friend brought a few over and abandoned them, which I guess should have been my first indication that maybe my tipsy taste buds were incorrect. I guess they're capitalizing on the "hard whatever" market or the "I don't really like beer but..." market so good for them.

 

Lol sounds about right. Limited beer release = natural disaster

 

i'd rather have a pliny than heady topper, i find topper one of the most overrated beers.
for me ballast point is way over priced, i wont buy any of their stuff anymore

 

5.50 at the brewery and like 8 bucks everywhere else. and worth every penny.

 

Cascade prices are absolutely laughable. Mikkeller everything is ludicrous, considering how woefully mediocre they are. Sculpin is horribly overrated.

Tahoe Mountain has a serious problem with their pricing.

 

Hopslam/thread.

 

Budweiser. Back when I was young I had to walk 20 miles in the snow to town and pick up six of 'em for ma, and ma gave my a dollar and said boy you better give me a quarter back because by God I work so hard to put food on the table and if you go spending that quarter on candy then I'll tell your pa, and you know he ain't gonna like that. Now these damn kids are asking for $6 for the same six pack and spendin' all their time on Tweeter and Bookface and goin' around out in public with long hair tied up in a bun like a sissy. Boy, in my day I'll be damned if I ever went out without having a shave first and without my hat. I just don't know what things are coming to these days...

 

Well I can Probably chime in I have been a long time reader on my brothers account and decided to make one of my own. I am an impulsive beer buyer of if whispers high beer advocate score and rare I'm in! However 5 years in a row I have wasted $21 for a sixer of hop slam and each year disappoints me more and more this year beating all years past. Secondly I dreamed of how bada$$ it'd be to have a keg of bourbon county so this year I get someone to sell me one which me my dad and grandfather felt them break off in me when I agreed to their price... And then I drink it on tap at whole foods a day before I pick mine up and it doesn't even stack up to the bottle bourbon county which j have multiple cases of..... Now the biggest let down of all o fly my fiancé and I out to Santa Rosa for Pliny the younger wait in line for hours only to find out the fresh elders I enjoyed in the rental car with a few other line goers tastes better than the younger... That trip totaled in around $3300 but I'm sure I have other horrible purchases in my cellar I have yet to open and find it suck....

 

Haha, are you this guy's mom or something?

 

I'm going to go outside the box a bit. There's a tiny brewery in Newberg, Oregon that charges $9 a bomber for regular stuff like their amber ale and IPA. I'll admit they make a good IPA, but it's not like I can't find any good IPA; I can find better IPAs that I can find for less than $9 a six pack. This brewery isn't hyped or anything- they're basically completely unknown- so I don't know how they even think they can get away with those prices. Maybe it has something to do with them being in wine country; there are surprisingly few breweries in Yamhill County compared to the rest of Western Oregon, but they're the only one in the area who tries to pull this.

 

Some stuff I don't mind paying top dollar for, some stuff makes me cringe to pay for.

I know the 50/50 Eclipse beers are high priced, but I also know they have a tiny system, go out of their way to source spirit barrels that cost them a ton of $$$, and producing that release takes a lot of time and space away from their production line. So the beer is a good value to me, even though it's freakin pricey.

I won't buy Mikkeller beers anymore though, because it makes me cringe that I'm spending money for a Scandinavian world traveler hipster that just writes recipes and pays someone else to brew the beer - I don't think the "middle man" in this case is of value.

Currently, I'm choosing to spend more money at local breweries. I took the 50 or so bucks I would have ordinarily spent on bourbon county releases and went out and spent that cash at Faction and Fieldwork; makes me feel like I got more value for my buck.

 

All that makes too much sense really.

A new brewery 2 years back decided it was best to charge $12/growler on standard pours for their hours beer. Long story short, they realized that the standard city/area rate was about $10/growler for months and years prior/after.. It did not take long for others to change it up a bit.

In sadder news, We have a brewery named La Cumbre in my area. For the better part of 1+ years since canning/bottling their specialty IPA, they have been selling bombers at a certain price.

Within the past 6 months, other breweries have come over charging about $1 more per bomber, thus causing an ugly chain reaction. I believe LC has raised their price to $10/bomber.

I'm top 1 or 2 on untappd check ins for project dank. But lately I am just out of it. No incentive to try what ends up being a good 4x the price on their standard offering...

At least they know what got them their and realize what a core lineup beer gets them.

 

Naw, I'm just one of those irritating "fact checker" folks. Opinions are opinions no matter who expresses them or how unpopular they may be.