Capone's Black Friday (list is out)

The demand for Cantillon has gotten so out of control, I really have no idea what constitutes a good price any more. However, I see Monks is having a Zwanze day, Cantillon celebration, and in light of the pricing at Capone's, I'd be curious to see what they charge for Cantillon during that event.

Rarely have I been so absolutely elated over the fact I dislike a particular style of beer...

 

It's hard for me to say yay or nay to that, as I'm just not a big fan of the style. Cantillon beers always seem to be extraordinairly funky, with much more wet blanket, horse sweat and head cheese than what I find in local products (which would tend to explain why I normally prefer local products - wet blanket, horse sweat and head cheese are not flavor components I normally associate with a tasty beer). That being said, I would expect a product brewed over in Europe to be more expensive here in the States than a local product (assuming the cost of making the beer over there is comparable to what it costs to make a similar beer here), so it doesn't particularly surprise me or gall me that Cantillon beers are more expensive than locally made products. I would tend to expect that (it's when similarly made local products are more expensive here than similarly made foreign products that I become perplexed. Hello again Brian S. at Stillwater.).

All that aside, $10 for a four ounce pour does seem pretty high, but I guess it's not all that out of line, considering what I paid for CBS at Blue Dog during their wealth of riches ($5 or $6 for a 4 ounce pour if memory serves). It's high, no doubt, but I don't know that the price is completely out of line (these days).