Bombers should only be 8% ABV +

Huh? Where the do you live in Indiana? Not a single 3Fs is less than $8 a bomber, not to mention Great Divide, Stone, Rogue, New Albanian, etc etc.

 

i've written rogue off for so many reasons...

 

I was being sarcastic. I've never seen a $7 dollar bomber because our beer prices here are out of line with the states that touch us. Our beer prices here are terrible.

 

Everything's getting more expensive. Get used to it.

 

only on a beer-centric website will people complain about beers being "too strong" for them. get a bottle saver/wine stopper and only drink half the bomber if it's really such an arduous task to finish it over the course of an evening.

 

You want to come here then if you think prices are terrible.In a pub you pay $1.50 a pint in tax before you touch the beer! Bottled beer in a supermarket is a bit more reasonable but then it's nothing like as good and you get what you pay for.Or perhaps the government gets what you pay for............

 

From his tone I doubt the OP is wondering that, but I can propose an answer for you to consider--the market place.

We have two or three breweries in SEPA who never used to use the 22 oz size because they have to incur extra labor changing over the bottling line twice and having more people to pack bottles in cases, etc. However, in recent years these breweries have starting putting out some of their beers in both size bottles because the out-of-state distributors, retailers and customers clamor for the bombers. (I say out-of-state since in PA we have a case law and most beer stores sell by the case only. This suppresses impulse buying and the economics of bombers are also quite clear to the customer. I can buy a 24 bottle case of 12 oz bottles for less than I pay for a 12 bottle case of 22 oz bottles and get more beer.) But the breweries, being happy to sell their beer with a higher profit margin, are willing to incur the extra costs because it satisfies popular demand and creates better cash flow.

 

Awesome

 

Hop Stoopid is $6.99+ in the Boston area, and because of that, rarely fresh. Just shameful.

 

Not really sure I understand the ABV correlation.

I would think most people don't mind paying $8-$10 for HF Saisons in the 6-7% ABV range. I think you said it in your original post "beers you kind of like" sounds like you don't want to pay allot for mediocre beer.

That we all can understand.

 

If it weren't for bombers there would be about 200-250 fewer beers on the shelves out here in the PNW. There are a couple of companies with mobile bottling lines that only accomodate 22oz bottles, and if it weren't for their service we wouldn't have bottles from Gigantic, Laurelwood, Heater Allen, Oakshire, Lompoc, and dozens of others.

If my options are spending $4.79 for a bomber of Workhorse IPA or being forced to seek it out on tap, I'll take the bomber almost every time.

 

Where do they get off charging more than $7 for a 750 of Lou Pepe Gueuze? That shit's only 5% ABV!

 

If you have a Total Wine near you, they typically carry 6 packs of Rogue for $9.99. Not a bad price at all, and they usually have just about all of the different beers Rogue makes.

 

Does the fact that it's a 5% beer make it taste any worse? I still don't see how that has anything to do with anything. There is more to craft beer than ABV. You guys need to grow up.

 

You're*

 

Thank you I'm glad someone said that. Many of the very best and most expensive beers in the world are under 8%. If you are merely looking for something with a lot of alcohol in it drink vodka.

 

A couple of people hit the nail on the head here: abv does not indicate how good something is, or how it should be priced. In fact, it's this type of thinking that has led to "super saisons" and abv's that keep getting bigger and bigger for each style. A 5% beer can cost a brewery every bit as much as a 10% beer to make as well.

 

For some, it's about the journey. For others...

 

+1

I could have sworn Total Wine screwed up on this price tag. Wanted to fill up a cart and then found out this really was the right price.

 

Look, I don't drink beer just to get drunk, but alcohol percentage is a factor when I make a purchase. In general, when a beer has a higher alcohol percentage, the price goes up because more fermentables are needed and is therefore more expensive to produce. But when you take an average witbier, put it in a 25.4 oz bottle and slap an $8 or higher price tag on it, it makes me scratch my head and wonder why I shouldn't just pay $8.99 for a sixer of White Rascal or $9.99 for a 4-pack of Allagash White when both are better than Namaste IMO. It just seems like customer-gouging to me.