Best Bar Special you've seen?

I was pretty happy when I ordered a Crooked Stave Surette on tap and discovered it was only $2.

 

$8 pitchers and $2.75 12oz of zombie dust. Doesn't happen that often but it's nice when it does.

 

Not overly spectacular but $4 pints of Head High every happy hour at Cloverleaf Tavern is pretty damn solid.

 

The other night i got pints of SN Celebration and ST Krampus for $3.75 each. Took full advantage

 

5$ Happy hour pitchers of Firestone Pale, DBA and especially their Union Jack IPA. Hard to beat anywhere...

 

$5 dollar pitchers of Union Jack IPA wow.... What a steal, they probably lose money doing that lol.

 

Love Krampus

 

there is no such thing in the ny metro area

 

If you're paying more for the pour than you would at the store, its not a deal.

My favorite deal was Faux-bab at Acre during Chicago Craft Beer week. BCBS Cherry, FW XVI, Sour in the Rye, etc. all for $6 an 8oz pour. All in one place. best night of drinking til Zwanze day.

 

AliveOne is a dive bar in Chicago that does $2 pints on Tuesdays. Nothing super special, but getting Anti-Hero, Alpha King, Breakfast stout, Lil Sumpin, Bell's Christmas, etc in the city at that price is always really impressive.

 

I understand the logic, but when you buy beer at a bar you're paying for the service, heating/cooling, glass cleaning, conveniece, selection, etc. Depending on where you go, the deal might not look that "dealy" if there's higher overhead, it's a small/new place, or they serve like 30+ beers on tap.

 

No and I don't expect those deals regularly. But for a special promotion or event, I've definitely seen beers become cheaper than when sold in bottles.

 

Mahaffey's Happy Hour: 3 10 oz. pours for $5. They get some good stuff, but they don't count towards the Beer Club and not every beer is available for the deal. ($5 for 30 oz.)

Max's 32 oz. pours not available for all beers but just most of them. Same price as normal, but only during their Friday Happy Hour (sometimes they have it at other times though, but not sure on the hours).

 

Draught House in Austin has Texas pints for $3 on Sundays. Jester King Let Petit Prince is cheaper than buying at the store in bottles (~$7 for 750ml) at that price.

Opal Divine's still does $2.50 Texas Pints on Wednesdays, iirc... although their selection isn't quite as wide.

I remember back when Flying Saucer first opened in San Antonio when I was living there and had $2.50 pints on Mondays... I got some real beer education real quick going every Monday, lol. It used to be the majority of the menu back then with a very few exceptions (now it seems like only 25% of the menu qualifies for it and it's gone up $1 or so).

I also went to Pinthouse Pizza and they had 12oz pours of BP Indra Kunindra last week for $2... because the keg was moving that slow, lol.

 

Mellow mushroom(upscale pizza place) has $2 pint night on Wednesdays. Usually their high gravity beers are excluded, but there are still a fair amount of decent options. Most recently I had Anderson Vally winter solstice and Bells two hearted.

 

Vintage in Madison has $1 Wisconsin 12oz. drafts, which includes New Glarus Moon Man, Ale Asylum Madtown Nutbrown, and PBR. It's pretty insane.

 

Not a cheap special, but we had this line up at Parker Pie in West Glover, Vt. A couple months ago. I'd say that's pretty special

 

Keeping in mind that it is in NY...The Black Sheep Ale House did $4 pours on all 25 of their taps from the 4th of July to Labor Day the last two Summers. Lovely.