The Bruery pricing

Call me crazy but the more expensive their beers get, the more they are worth it. Chocolate Rain tops out at $40... yeah give me that all day. Anniversary 100% BA at $30? That beer is incredible.

Follow your dreams, that's what I do.

 

Been disappointed with everyvsingle bruery beer. Blech. One dimensional gimmicky atrocious nonsense. Haven't had the "privelege"to try their 35 $ beers though, so maybe I'm just not spending enough money?

 

I hate everything you say. You are some sort of Bruery troll. It's pretty ridiculous and childish. When you look at the rating of the beers they put out, it makes you look kinda silly. I do live in California, but I live about 3 1/2 hours away from Orange County, so I'm not just sticking up for a "somewhat local brewery". Unless you used to date some girl/boy who works there, I think you're just saying it to get attention. Oude Tart is delicious, so get over it.

 

No, it's the market place.

No one has a gun to your head. If you can't afford it or you simply don't want to buy it . . .don't.

This is the same thing with everything else in life, why do we all act as if beer is "something special" and deserves "inalienable right" status? (Beer is not free speech, beer is not freedom of religion and I don't see where in the world beer has risen to the degree of being deserving of equal protection!, among other things).

If you can't afford it don't buy it.
If you don't like it don't buy it.
It's very easy.

The same thing holds true with all else in life from every single consumable item or appliance to vehicle we use.
Camry or Taurus or Mercedes or Ferrari or 2 million dollar Bugatti right to generic soda and water in lieu of Coke or Perrier. We make these choices all day. The way we show our preferences is by not supporting and/or buying that which we don't like; that which we don't like for whatever reason, be price or taste or style. Yet, no one writes and complains and whines about milk, bread, toilet paper, orange juice, toasters, bicycles etc. etc. You get the picture

I'd love to drive a new Bugatti. I'd love to live on a hilltop villa in Tuscany. I'd love to own a giant company where I didn't have to work and could just collect money. But, I drive a pretty common car, live in a two bedroom two bath house and work 70 hours a week. And, I do it because that's what I CAN do. And, I really have a good life that I like; I try to not complain and I control the things that I can control. It is unlikely that I'll make as low as $5,000 a year. It is unlikely that I'll make as high as a $1,000,000 a year. I try to live within my means and keep things in perspective. Some people in the world will NEVER make $5,000 a year, cumulative in their lives! Some people in the world will make millions of dollars A DAY!

There is no question but that a $1,000 bottle of beer is not too high for a whole lot of people!
There is no question but that a $5.00 bottle of beer in inconceiveably high for others!

Personally, I live within my comfort zone and I don't judge others nor do I seek to impose my values on others.
I could never say uncatagorically "It's too high." It really doesn't make sense as a generality. It means that perhaps it's "too high" for you - period. End of story. Who the hell are any of us to judge what's "too high a price" etc. for anyone else?

Let's get over ourselves - really. It's beer folks. You don't like the taste, chances are you don't buy it. You don't like the price, chances are you don't buy it. Hey, if you hate the brewer, changes are you don't buy. I'll even bet that if you don't like the label chances are you don't buy it! Again, no guns to heads - you don't like it - don't buy it. But, don't judge those that make it, sell it or buy it. It's a free market place. Generally water seeks its own level. The market place will judge.

I'm done with this rant. (Ok, tell me the truth, can you tell at all that it's the middle of the night and I'm on a massive dose of steroids for a few days?? Really? Can you tell??)

 

Why??

 

Could not agree with this anymore.


One thing I find rather ironic on these boards is how so many people complain about beer costing so much. Besides the point that great beer is a fraction of the cost compared to top-shelf wine or liquor, a lot of BA's constantly rail against BMC products for being such low quality...yet seem to think that much better craft options should cost almost the same price as their cheap BMC counterparts. In what world do you not have to pay a bit of a premium to get a much better product?

 

There's a reason why I pretty much only try their beers on tap. While they're usually good, not many are worth the price. The sours and special offerings are all $20+ per bottle and their regular offerings are just as expensive or moreso than the Belgian beers they attempt to immitate.

I don't see people comparing craft prices to BMC prices. Paying a bit more is to be expected. The comparisons are to other craft beers that are usually as good as better. When an alright American tripel costs as much as the best tripels in the world from Belgium, there is reason to be annoyed. When I can get a 4 pack of Petrus Pale with enough change left over for a bomber of something else for the price of a single bottle of a Bruery sour, there's room to question the prices. When a company charges $300 per year just for people to be able to buy $20-40 bottles of beer on top of everything else, it's small wonder that their prices are scrutinized.

 

Only place I have seen them around here they have all been around $25-$30.

 

People just like to vent about high prices. That's all. There is nothing wrong with people complaining about prices.

 

Which have you had?

 

This is quite the rant response to a post that was a joke (mostly)

 

What something is worth paying for, or what can be considered "better" is entirely a matter of opinion. If you think those beers cost too much, that's perfectly fine; but being annoyed by it just seems silly to me. Just don't buy it if it's that big of a deal.

 

I paid $42 for Smoking Wood Rye at a bar in NYC. Totally worth it.

 

Imported alcohol is insanely high in Canada. Last time I was there, a sixer of SNPA was like $16.

 

$15-$30 for a 750ml bottle, and every cent was completely wasted, as 90% of the beer I've bought that was made by the Bruery has gone right down the drain.

 

Next rant, bar bottle prices...

 

If, like me, you think the Bruery's pricing is largely an attempt to pass off bad beer as high quality, then that is absolutely a reason to be annoyed by the pricing. Their whole marketing strategy seems to be to make beers they can call unique based on some exotic or new ingredient, or blend of beers, charge an assload of money for it so that consumers view it as high quality, and then laugh all the way to the bank.

 

Really? There are huge amounts of great beers that are $1 - $3 for a 750 ml bottle? Could you point them out to me?

 

I don't make all that much either, but I have a set amount that I'm willing to spend on beer every week. Most of it goes into a trade or two, and bottles end up costing me quite a bit more than they're originally priced, so I wouldn't have all that much of a problem spending 30 bucks on a beer that is well known to be of a high caliber. I'll take quality over quantity every time. Quality can be found at a much cheaper price, but I don't drink more than 2-3 times a week anyway, so having less beer to drink and spending the same amount of money doesn't bother me all that much.

I've never had anything from the Bruery, so I can't say that I'd buy their stuff all the time, but I'd be willing to find out if what they had was really worth the price, if given the opportunity.. Just my two cents

 

Fruet is worth every penny!
After trying it one time I had a case ordered for the bar and another for my self.