Liquor Store Mystery Bag

It's the nature of a mystery bag. Sometimes you score, sometimes you get screwed but most of the time you are just a little disappointed. You got screwed.

 

The only place I've seen do them, it's a box and you can see some of the contents. Usually aix of macro and the cheaper local crafty stuff. Seems mostly like a way to move old product.

I could imagine that a higher end bottle shop could use mystery bags/boxes/packs to both move product that was getting near it's limit and introduce customers to new stuff. If a good bottle shop told me.they guaranteed the products would be cheaper than buying them each individually.but that any lighter/hoppier styles are in the drink immediately realm, I would be down to try out mystery pack every now.and then

 

Nope. Have done the mystery box a couple times (been a while), seem to recall something like a sixer or 2 for 10 bucks. Don't think any of the beers would be considered "worthy". But if that is what I was looking for, I wouldn't have bought the mystery box

 

Lucky it wasn't four Coronas. They're having trouble moving that for some reason.

 

my local craft beer bar has $6 mystery bags.... they use it to get rid of beers that are slow selling.
No macro crap... but sometimes the beer is not good, but for $3 a beer its not horrible. They put bottles, 12 oz cans, 16oz cans... its a fun way to move product...

 

They call it a mystery bag because it's a mystery to them why anyone would buy one if they knew what they put in there!

 

It's a gamble that I would take a stab at. For some reason, probably the novelty of it, I would go for this over the make your own 6pks at grocery stores now.
There was a great bar in Chicago that used to do a $2 mystery beer. Sometimes it was a Hamms or Blatz, other times it was something local.

 

Here's the breakdown:
- You've managed to relocate yourself away from the US epicenter of badness.
- You spent $5 tax-free on 4 beers without knowing what they were.
- You felt cheated with 3 of the beers after the reveal.
- Many people have lost their jobs and will not be able to afford their home or food.

Perhaps you can shrug this one off man. I'm honestly not knocking you. Just trying to shift your perspective a bit in a friendly way.

 

Those things are sold to your teetotaling maiden aunt or your bottom-shelf-whiskey-drinking grandma who's living off of Social Security and 50% survivor's portion of her second husband's railroad pension of $97/month. They know you like beer and figure it'll be a nice gift for you on Christmas or for your birthday (given to you on your sister's birthday - Oops. Hey, they're old and forgetful).

Grin, say "Thank You" and compost the undrinkable ones or save to kill garden slugs.

Speaking of "slugs", tho', any store that sells them are lower than them.

 

Why even do this? I mean, I wouldn't buy a mystery bag of meat, produce, or anything similar. Has anyone bought something like this and received beer that was decent? I'm figuring you are highly likely to get slow moving beers past their date, and generic AAL's.

 

Playing the mystery bag is like gambling- the house always wins.

 

It wasn't beer but a local store did the same thing with wine. 4 bottles for $50.00. It turned out to be a good deal. Cheapest bottle was $14.99. The most expensive was $19.99. All were California Red Blends.

 

Back at The University of Akron in the mid to late ‘80s, Tremonte Distributing sold cases of “breakers” for $10. They wouldn’t let you dig through the boxes, so it was a “mystery bag.” They were made up of bottles that came from cases that were dropped or whatever. Most was junk (Wiedemann, Schaefer, etc...), but at that time I drank junk anyway because of the cost. However, you usually got at least one St. Pauli Girl and maybe a Molson Canadian or a Moosehead. It was kinda fun to buy those. Good memories...