Ya know what, I don't even know either. Mex beers are outside of my landscape now. Maybe at a restaurant but I aint buying it anymore.
Wow! @Bavarican that's incredible. Same bottle of Weihenstephaner here in the Atlanta area. The 16.9 oz cans of Helles are usually under $3 and come in four packs. Reissdorf Kölsch goes for $3/bottle (~€2.63) - that's a 11.2 oz bottle mind you.
Comparing "oranges to oranges" (limes to limes?), imported AB-InBev-owned Mexican brands (left, from the OP's link): 96¢ (US) a bottle versus .99 € ($1.14 US) bottle.
But you are the OP of this thread about the "Outrageous price" of the ABInBev Mexican brand, Estrella Jalisco, of around $1/bottle.
In all likelihood it is the middle man(s) who are creating this pricing 'issue'. My guess is it is the importer that is the primary 'scoundrel' here. As a FYI I purchased a 2025 version of Augustiner Helles yesterday at my local Retail Beer Distributor (where the importer Global Village Imports rents office space). Once again $10.99. The bottle date is L057142504 (my Little Orphan Annie decoder states this it was bottled on February 26, 2025). Cheers! P.S. In a few hours I will be heading down to Philly to attend the annual Logjammin's Lager beer festival sponsored by Human Robot. I look forward to drinking the lagers of Bierstadt, BarrieHaus, The Seed, Goldfinger,...and Good Word!
I saw Festina Peche was being packaged again. I like this beer. $15.99 for a 6x12, pass. I can’t imagine this beer is that much more to make than 60 minute or even 90. Crazy that $2 more gets me a 12 pack of 60. Enjoy
Festina Peche is sold for $11.99 here, where I bought it. I don’t think it’s about how much it costs to make as much as it is about area, distributor, store, etc.
Yeah, it is not specifically the brewery at 'fault' here. Distributed beer has many, and differing, business entities involved. As I have discussed with you in the past I am a fan of Tonewood beers but for some reason (the Wholesale Distributor?) those beers are too pricey at my local Retail Beer Distributor. Cheers!
Barrel aging is overrated at this point. There's a reason the wine industry hasn't picked up aging in used spirit barrels. The Scots, Canadians, and Japanese don't state what bourbon was formerly in the barrels they use. I'd rather have the whiskey on the side.
It’s legitimately cheaper to buy a four pack of Old Rasputin and bottle of very good to great whiskey than it is to buy some of the beers in this thread. Blows my mind.
Buddy, this Mexican charges at LEAST 5 dollars an hour for his services! Sometimes more depending on what you want
Just picked up a 12-pack mixed of Toppling Goliath Pseudo Sue for... $24 plus tax. As much as I love Pseudo Sue and all its hop variants, I think I'm going for the 12-pack of Bell's Two Hearted a few rows down, which was only $16 (and packs a lot more punch). Crazy thing was a 12-pack of OG Pseudo Sue can was $26!!!!
This is also where I find myself. It is a lot more satisfying of an experience than drinking a glass of leggy carbonated soy sauce.
A 4 pack of Raspy and bottle of Buffalo Trace is under 40 dollars at the new Total Wine like 4 miles away
I think some of this is consolidation, which then puts marketing departments in charge of image, distribution, and pricing. "I now say this is premium, therefore the price must raise"
Depends on what you consider very good to great whiskey, but I'm content with Evan Williams white label. Other than that, I'll keep an expensive bottle around for special occasions. No idea how the folks in the "What Whisk(e)y are you drinking now?" thread swing it.
The hotel I worked at 20 years ago used to give us a $40 gift card to Meijer for Christmas. That covered a 30 rack of Stroh's, a bottle of Evan Williams single barrel or Elijah Craig 12 year, and some snacks back then.
