High Alcohol Beers - Smaller Bottles?

hey, i am a huge high end scotch and bourbon drinker.... and everytime i get something good or rare or both... i always dive right in.... life is short and if money is only good for spending than good booze is good for drinkin'.... enjoy....

 

Feel like it probably costs the brewery more to use 12oz bottles, so in turn, it will cost you more. Big beers are expensive enough already, no need to add more cost.

 

Nothing wrong with a real tipsy night. Just write the review when you're sober

 

i totally agree. Enjoy the 22oz, you only live once.

 

you could always get one of those wine stoppers and save the other half for the next day.

 

Whatever you end up doing, don't let it sit out all night as you drink it. When that beer gets warm it tastes like Jagermeister decided to brew a beer. I love the stuff right up until it gets warm and then it's just too much in my opinion.

 

I like the 12oz format a lot, but have no problem going down a bomber if needed.

 

See, I would MUCH rather pay that extra $1 or so for a smaller bottle. A $4 12oz bottle beats a $7 bomber any day in my book.

Sometimes there is nothing wrong with a bomber, but other times I really don't want 22oz of a high ABV beer. Even when I'm totally cool with the larger bottle, I'd rather have 2 small bottles of the same thing so I don't need to commit up front.

 

I totally agree.

Semi-related, one of my favorite things about my local pub (O’brien’s, which anybody from SD will be familiar with) is that for anything available as a pint, you can also order a 10oz pour of. I pretty much always go that route – I rarely need 16 oz of anything.

 

Bombers are generally overpriced and oversized. With high ABV beers I'd actually prefer more came in nips.

 

Who doesn't love some nips? I just had Red Horizon last night which came in a 8.5oz bottle and was perfect given the 17% ABV. Jewbelation 15 is a great beer but a bomber of it is wayyy to much for one person. Not because of the alcohol but because of the flavor - just too sweet after the first glass. This is a fine beer to cook with though....Drink what you want and save the rest?

 

With those high ABV bombers, I try to wait until I have someone to share it with. That size just asks to be shared.

 

And a lot of times, it's the big beers that cost the brewery more in ingredients and fermenter space that they'll put into large format bottles so as to be able to cover their higher production expenses. It makes sense for them but sucks for us who don't feel like getting shwasted on a week night.

 

I for one would like to see more .5l and 1l bottled offerings. Shit, gimme a .5l or 1l can, too.

 

If it only comes in a Bomber, man up and put your bigboy pants on...If Shogo can take a Double Black to the face then you surely can handle some Jewbelation...

Cheers!

 

I too don't believe that smaller bottles are more expensive (to the consumer) than large bottles. Something that comes in big and small bottle formats, Fat Tire for example @ about $3.50-$4.00 a bomber and a 12 pack @ about $15-16, the 22oz costs ~$.17 per ounce as opposed to ~$.12 per ounce for the 12 pack. Maybe it is a bit more expensive to produce small bottles, but with packs of beer (whether 4, 6, 12, ect.), you're always purchasing quantity, and quantity usually always equates to a lower price.

 

This is your answer. From my experience, any sort of wine stopper will keep a beer just fine for days until you're ready to finish it. Also, if you take the cap off without bending or damaging it, popping it right back on also does a perfectly fine job of preserving it as well...albeit not as well as a wine stopper, so just popping the cap on would be best for drinking it the next day.

 

I bet more brewers would sell smaller bottles if they could 1) make the same margins as bombers and 2) get the shelf space. From what I hear, it's a lot easier to get a store to put a bomber on the shelf than yet another 4/6pk.