Bomber prices are out of control...

You got lucky with your Bourbon County prices. It was $7 a bottle here in Chicago.

 

You are out of control. Didn't have to buy them.

Pot calling the kettle black...but seriously, sometimes you just have to say no.

 

They're stupid. If I see one in the $5-8 range I might get it, maybe even up to $10 if it's something really good, but on the whole there are plenty good beers hitting a $10 pricepoint and in a sixpack format.

 

Take a trip up to Canada and see what bombers are priced at here...

 

If it tastes great i'll pay the price point, if it doesn't i won't. If i've never had it before, I use BA to determine if the overall opinion is worth the cost.

 

Many are, I try to do the math ( how much per OZ). I do seem to pass more on these as time goes by; I also take less chances on breweries new to me , based on this math. Really chaps my ass to see a brewery do this with traditional beer styles or low ABV offerings. I live to pay $10 a bomber for pils/bock/weizen that doesn't touch the one I could get in Germany for $2...

Russian River can pull this off, Joe Bob's brewery opened in 2012 that hardly anyone has heard of charging near the same prices, really don't get it...

Your Mogli Price seems at least 20-30% high to me, mind you basing this on my market prices ( been in NC many times, haven't bought beer in SC in decades )

 

I feel like this thread comes up once a month. Yes, it's a bit crazy, but I try to limit bomber purchases to limited releases and for special occasions. Occasionally, I'll buy a Lagunitas bomber which are great value, and a Toppling Goliath when it's in town (wish they'd bottle 12 ouncers, dammit)

 

The total wine by me is really expensive. Usually $1-2 more than craft shops.

Prices will get crazier, craft beer is a booming industry.

 

If everyone would stop buying bombers then breweries would stop making them. 12 dollar sixer's taste so much better than a 12 dollar bomber. Stop buying bombers

 

Come and see how much that stuff would run you in PA and you'll stop complaining. I've see Natalie for $30

 

I pretty much stopped buying any bomber that wasn't under $10, save the occasional limited release. The sheer increase in ounces for my money when buying a 4/6-pack more than makes up for what I forego in variety. I feel like I've seen many progress this way in their purchases, but still so many new people getting into craft who are willing to load up the cart with bombers, that I doubt it'll change for awhile.

 

Choklat for $11?

I can pick up bottles at Lowe's Foods for around $7-8

 

Back in the day people used to shit bricks over Rogue bombers costing $5.50. Now any random brewery shows up charging $12 for a normal ass beer and people pay it. Who knows. I saw that Cascade Cranberry the other day and wanted the tick, but sorry, I'm not swallowing that $28.99 price tag. I can get actual lambics for 2/3 the price. 3 Fonteinen alll day cada dia.

 

Damn where in PA do you live? I completely have the same sentiments on PA prices, but I've only seen Natale as high as $17-18 here. $30 is absolutely insane.

 

I'm starting to pry myself away from the over priced bombers and barrel aged stouts. There are just so many good beers out there at a much lower price point, I'm starting to not care as much about the 'ticking', as I am about paying for quality relative to quantity.

 

The worst part is so many of the best beers are in bombers. I have 2 big stouts at my store that are wood aged: Mogli, in oak barrels and Big Bad Baptist in whiskey barrels, I think.

I refuse to pay $20 for Mogli, so I've occasionally been buying BBB at $10.99, some leftover Warlock, and Schlafly Oak Aged Barleywine. Warlock is the cheapest at 7.99, which is not terrible. Single 12s, on the other hand, are way cheaper. Expedition, Breakfast Stout and things like Chocolate Sombrero hover around $3. Those are good beers, but if you want a barrel aged beer you will pay a premium.

I get the fact that a barrel program will increase price and that doesn't bother me, except from a personal finance perspective. Why though, does Pumpking cost so much? I doubt that it is an issue of passing on production costs, though I could be wrong.

Schlafly Pumpkin and Williamsburg Pumpkin are two great beers of that style sold in 6 packs. Both of those beers average out to less than $2 a beer, while Pumking is $3.25 in bomber format. That's substantially more expensive. My store has been out of Pumking for a while and Warlock will soon be gone. Meanwhile, Pumpkin head still lingers on the shelves at $1.75 a beer. I guess quality allows for a greater profit margin. I'm with you though, I still don't like it.

 

i don't mind that breweries have found a way to cleverly exploit people's willingness to pay $10-20 by selling them less beer. we saw it first with six-packs becoming four-packs, and then some of these became bombers. if we're still buying the beer, more power to them.

it's also natural that the price landscape will become more varied. there are a ton of breweries competing in most markets, and there is a huge range in quality. while there are plenty of instances where cheaper beers are better than more expensive ones, breweries that try to pull the opposite will find themselves failing to sell much product. i, for one, am OK with that.