$16 Witbier?

Well, it's got great reviews and it's imported from Belgium. I can't imagine it would be very cheap. Complexity shouldn't factor much into cost as much as logistics and ingredient/labor costs.

 

The wit is usually a couple dollars cheaper than the abt. 12.

I'd check elsewhere as I can usually find abt.12 for $12 and the with for $10

 

This is the special Tokyo wit. Seems like a lot of money anyway you slice it.

 

ahh, my bad, didn't click the link and assumed it was the regular wit.

 

Yow.

I'm in Boston too and I paid twelve bucks and change.

Still, for form's sake, isn't Tokyo the home of the forty dollar cantaloupe?

 

Yeah, OP is getting ripped off. It's $11-12 around here. Still not cheap, but at least it's on par with a lot of other Belgian 750ml bottles.

 

It's amazing, but $16 is too much. I get it for $11-12 here in socal

 

Just bought my second 4-pack ever of St. B Wit a couple weeks ago for ~$17, about the same as I paid for the first one around a year ago. That's for 1320mL of course, just 12% shy of 2 bombers worth of beer. So yeah, you got ripped off.

 

You should go to Perth, there you can buy 500ml Hoegaarden at a bar for $18!!!

 

That's a completely different beer, though.

 

Gotcha. As one of the reviews of the Tokyo mentioned, it's a limited release, so that would explain the markup. Or maybe it's the whopping extra .5% ABV over the regular Wit.

 

That's 1 whole proof! Very valuable.

 

It's possible the cost may have been miscalculated as Tokyo comes 9 bottles to a case instead of the standard 6 or 12. Either that or the store is just jacking up the price since it's a special release. $16 is certainly way too high...I think it's around $10 and change around here.

 

That's CHEAP.

I paid $10 draft here at Praying Monk and it was only a pint pour.

 

I stick to my $10 limit for HIGH abv bombers/750's. Saves me allot of posts on BA complaining about beer prices.


My real limit is 5 on american bombers. 10 for Belgians, which is sad because I had to pass on some Duval and La chouffe lately that I usually sprung on for my BD. I just happy DuPont is still 7.50. Orval has hit 7 bucks for 330ml and I not going to ever pay that.