$100 for something that you could sip and savor over months would be a lot more palatable too. I have a difficult time buying $50+ bottles of whiskey, but at least I know I can enjoy them over the course of a year. $100 for 375mL of beer pretty much has to be consumed inside of 24 hours of open. At that point, you could go buy a nice local steak and a good bottle of whiskey and have yourself a night. Or as I mentioned above, I could have a whole evening at Side Project for a similar price.
I'm the same way with $1/oz threshold. I understand it being pricey. High ABV, so there a lot of malt / hops; that has a cost. 3 different barrels + storage space for 2 years. I certainly don't expect it to be cheap. But at $100, I wonder how much you're paying for the hype. I suspect they've got a huge profit margin on this beer. I suspect the same is true for their other big stouts. You're paying for hype.
I don’t have trouble paying 40-100 for a good store pick or allocated bottle of bourbon. With that being said, I’ve been burned on that just like I have with expensive beer and have learned there are options at my disposal that are equal or at least close to it for my palate for a far less exorbitant cost. As you state, that cost is easier to swallow for something that will last you months if not years depending on the size of your collection.
Exactly my thought. Because I also buy Scotch once in a while, I'm sitting here thinking a nice bottle of Scotch can be $100 or $150 - that would take me a year or two to finish. A little bottle of beer is gone in an hour or two.
The other triple oaked beer in that feed was half the price. Think about that for a minute or two....
Yep. The last ADTWD release is still sitting on shelves here. Lots of them. $75 per bottle and nobody is buying them. I think this is going to catch up with the brewery pretty quickly.
Other breweries of equal or more notoriety are charging a fraction for their barrel aged beers (Side Project). Anchorage is essentially charging secondary pricing at the primary source, based upon the hype they’ve created. I personally don’t respect their model.
B1 = old school line up and insta-sellout. B2 = online release but no proxies allowed. Only one of the Deepwoods beers they've not allowed proxies with the online release format. Upcoming DBVSOJ release in January is TBD. If I had to predict, limit one 4 pack per. No proxies. However, if Tavour has really moved a lot of their product, I could see them throwing them something. Kinda cool they sent them VSO Dark Mode. Not even sure what month that one comes out. Maybe Nov?
Same here and its been the same amount of bottles there since they put them up.... what amount remains you say?? The Same Amount. 3 rows from front to back. Never had shit from anchorage but i have one Anchorage / SP collab bottle that I've had for about a year in a trade that i don't care to drink.
This is how I justified the $125 price tag for MJK, which is 25oz and was tested/brewed to be able to be capped and enjoyed later for up to two weeks after initial opening.
Bit the silver bullet and ordered Kamimura. Will be my first anchorage beer and I already know it won’t be worth the price, but I’m genuinely curious about their stuff and will probably not buy more unless there’s a barleywine going for NOT $100. Does this ever happen?
I want to say historically most of the double-oaked BW variants, i.e. ADWTD DO and Wendigo DO were priced at a "reasonable" $50/375ml on Tavour. On a somewhat related note, it seems this year Anchorage capitalized on the ADWTD hype even more by releasing this year with 4(?) TO variants (Silver, Red, Gold, Full Color).
Strange that the label calls it “double oaked” while the description clearly states three barrels: oak foeder, Woodford DO, Willett. Maybe a lower price to offset the utter confusion? Or, they’re drunk with power over those TO ADWTD sets and prices.
I mean, it is pretty tasty if you like sweet English style with lots of barrel flavors (practically all Anchorage seem sweet to me). $100 good? Maybe a bottle of Utopias would be a better spend if you want a vastly more mature spirit-level beer. At least Tavour makes whales an option. I know I’m not flying to Alaska.
