pFriem bottles

The places around me, tend to charge, per oz, the less you buy. One place near me even has 1 gallon bladders, that sell at $15-ish, where a 1/2 gallon is $10-ish.

 

Bars can obviously choose their pricing model and creating small incentives to buy in larger quantity is a pretty standard practice in beer and other industries. That doesn't mean they have to do so. Beertunes and I were just trying to offer logic behind a different pricing. You can dislike it if you want, but it makes sense!

 

You're pretty smart for a FIB.

 

Been buying these like crazy since I first saw them a few weeks ago. Frickin awesome beers.

 

Talked to the buyer at the Food Coop a couple days ago, and he's got 'em ordered! Score!!!

 

Beertunes has a secret love for bombers he is fighting against. Just saying.

 

I grudgingly accept the 16oz bottles with only minor bitching. I think 12oz is just right. But, those 22oz bottles are just the worst. I'm convinced that every 22oz bottle is the reincarnation of a kitten that has been sent to hell, after being stepped on by a heavy metal drummer.

 

pFriem bottle release party @ Elizabeth Station in Bellingham tonight, 5-8PM.



Edit – @beertunes bottles will be between $4-8 I believe.

 

Food Coop will be getting them in shortly as well.

 

Girlfriend said they were in at Whole Foods today. Hoping she's bringing some home!

 

I suspect that since there's a big release party at the specialty beer store, that they might not have been on today's delivery truck at the Coop. But the buyer there assured me they were getting them in.

 

Well Chuck's is having a release party tomorrow if that's anything to gauge it by.

I have to say I'm extremely impressed that they came out the gates with this many varieties of beer released at once. Girlfriend brought home 2 of each and the counter is swamped with pFriem bottles. It's a beautiful sight.

 

It's impressive, but it comes at a cost. They were apparently so overwhelmed with initial demand that almost everything has been going into bottles, and as a result their distributor is almost completely out of draft. It'll probably cost them a few permanent handles (at least in the near term) if they can't get beer out fast enough.

 

That's interesting to know, thanks. Can't say it's too surprising since it really is almost a staggering offering from them all at once. Hope it doesn't hurt them ... but honestly their beer is so good it's hard to imagine any lengthy damage.

 

Ahh, growing pains. so happy Josh and Annie are having these growing pains.

 

Not sure how this will affect their business, but from my completely selfish point of view, this is not a problem. I've been unimpressed with most of their beers on draft, but found their Belgian offerings to be much better from the bottles. Thus, I wouldn't mind seeing them lose a few tap handles in exchange for bottles.

 

Interesting thought about possible draft supply issues. Though I have seen nothing that would allude to that being an issue. In addition to all the bottles being sampled last night. There were also four kegs on. There have also been multiple kegs on here and there around town.

The bottle release and tasting in Bellingham was a great success. Wonderful people and a great product line, the Flanders Blonde is something special. They all seem to be just as excited to put bottles out as we are to receive them. If you can make it to any of the bottle release / tasting parties this week I highly recommend it.

 

Saw the IPA, Pilsner, Flanders Red and Belgian Blonde at the Green Lake Village PCC last night.

 

This FIB brought bottles of Pfriem Flanders Blonde back to Chicago with him. My smarts are exponential.