16.9 oz Bourbon County Stout - Too much?

And your point is?
I'm already choosing to drink a BCBS...an extra 4.9 oz is gonna put me in a diabetic coma? It's not like I have an unlimited supply. Hell, I barely get any out here. I wish I could have the remotest possibility of this "problem" cuz that would mean I had a shitload of BCBS sitting around and I could drink it on a regular basis.

 

Amen.

 

Neither those beers last much more than 50 minutes to an hour in this house. ;-)

They both just taste so good! Hard for me so savor and make them last much over an hour.

 

I'd prefer 3L. This post lost me at how this isn't enough to share with one friend!?!? Good beer is meant to be shared.

 

This is a cost cutting measure by them.

 

Got a bottle of the stout today for 10.49. That is probably all I'll get for this year.

 

I'm ok with the size. Shit, I was just happy to get some BCBS

 

"The 16.9 oz format is too much for one person"

LOL PLEASE.

 

I see your point, but speaking specifically in reference to pricing, I would disagree to a certain extent.

 

Does In Bev in this case have a set price to each distributor for each case? There's a wide variety in pricing by region for the same product, so if InBev is consistent in their pricing either the distributor or retailer is taking liberties. The bottle of Rare I bought cost $60, the place I bought it was charged $50 per bottle, they only got two. Seems reasonable enough, then there's the retailers charging 2-3 X that much. Are they just covering their cost plus a set margin? Your in the business I'm curious how the pricing structure works on a larger scale.

 

Its not trying to be cool. Just showing that 16.9 is the perfect size to either solo or split.

 

Its halarious. We should change the name of this site to "can I please have smaller pours of my favorite beers to protect my liver advocate because I dont want a buzz EVER advocate.com

 

This^ 100%. Like 2 hours to drink 16 oz. is just staring at it for extended periods of time.

 

I can't speak to the price InBev charges the distributor, although my best guess would the price really doesn't fluctuate much. As far as the retailers charging outrageous amounts, that's on them. Typically a distributor covers a massive amount of territory (from Jacksonville to Tampa Bay, for example), so there's a lot of people buying product "x" from the same distributor. The pricing to a retailer from that distributor is basically the same across the board, and discounts for quantity really don't apply with something like BCBS (and in reality, the amount of discount a retailer receives in comparison the amount of cases needed to get that discount is extremely disproportionate). The real pricing difference from distributor to retailer comes in the type of Alcoholic Beverage License your store has. I for example, have an "on premise" license. Where the beverages are permitted to be consumed "on premise". A store like a bottle shop or grocery store has an "off premise" license. ALL of their beverages must be consumed "off premise". A store with an "off premise" license gets charged a lower amount for beverages than a store with "on premise". Which is why bars and restaurants are more expensive to buy booze, not just because they want you to pay $24 a six pack for lager. So, back to the original issue. If you have two local stores, one is charging $60 for rare and one is charging $200, they both paid the same amount for that product (assuming both stores have the same alcohol license), one store owner/manager just decided to increase the profit margin more than the other.

 

I'm not a fan of the beer, bought one for my brother though. Lover the new bottles, they definitely classed it up

 

You're right. I think I'll dive into a Bomber of Parabola all to myself instead...

Thanks for killing my buzz...

In all seriousness, as I'd prefer the 12oz 4-pack format instead, I find the 16.9oz the perfect amount to savor and enjoy at home. 12oz just leaves me wanting a bit more, and 22oz seems just a wee bit too much for one sitting. But hey, that's just me and my blood work is spectacular.

 

Just had a 12oz BC coffee from 2013 and feel like I've got the 'beetus right now.

Can't imagine 16.9

 

Just opened my first bottle last night after a 14 hour work day, and on my birthday. I brought it to bed with me and decided that would be my "cake" to celebrate.

I sipped on it for a little over an hour before knocking my glass too hard and splashing a couple ounces of that delicious nectar on my shirt and pillow (yes, it stains). Luckily there was still some left in my glass.

If you drink it like the brewer intends you to, slowly, I think it's the perfect amount. I'm sure if someone were to chug one of these (don't know why they would), they would catch a pretty hefty buzz. 12oz would have also worked, the experience just wouldn't have lasted as long.

 

I have two opposite feelings about the new bottles:

1) The new size is perfect if I have time to really enjoy the beer (meaning when I don't have to go to bed for work). As someone who drinks a lot of bombers (the girlfriend is rarely any help, so I end up drinking things I bought for "us" by myself), it's nice to not always have to drink 22 oz. of a 14% beer (although sometimes I'm fine with it ).

2) I think it's a damn shame they got rid of 4 packs. While 16.9 oz is a better amount for me than 12 (12 meaning I can fill my snifter to the top once, 16.9 meaning I get a little more afterwards), it was a lot of fun having a bottle of BCBS and knowing that their were 3 more waiting. Psychologically 3 of the 12 oz bottles feel much better than 2 of the 16.9 oz ones, despite being almost the same quantity of liquid.


The other shame is that I haven't noticed the new bottling having an appreciable effect on availability. Variants are still impossible to find if you're not there right when they come in, and even massive quantities of regular disappear almost instantly. So from that perspective, the newer packaging isn't helping too much (probably partially because limited releases in Chicago have gone from insane to laughably, embarrassingly bad). I do like the new bottle design, though; very classic-looking.

In short, no, I don't think the new bottles are too big, but I also don't think they've fixed the issues BCBS has (but nor is it their fault).