Bombers size bottles.

My local bar has $5 Laguintas bombers for one of their weekly specials. A seriously killer deal. Not to mention Lagunitas even in the supermarket is 'cheap,' too.

 

Even with cost (price/oz) taken out of the equation, I'm still not a big fan of either 22oz or 25oz bottles for the most part. The exception comes with the beers I plan on cellaring for extended period of time (which are mostly BA stouts). Otherwise there's no reason a Session/PA/IPA/DIPA/TIPA aren't all in cans, in my opinion.

 

I'm personally not a huge fan and don't buy them often. Problem is I like to have a beer every day after work, but having multiple a day every day gets expensive. So if you buy just bombers you're forced to drink 2 in one sitting.

I might buy 1 and save it for the weekends but never more than that. Absolutely kills the wallet.

 

I thought the same thing. It's less than two pints, not that hard to drink the whole thing if you are staying home and not driving.

 

Sure, it can be a sizeable amount to drink at once. But treat yourself once in a while!

 

Death to 22's, and death to the term bomber. A terrible nickname for a terrible format. Fortunately, the use of this shitty format is falling across the industry as A: consumers reduce our purchases of them, and B: more small breweries are investing in packaging lines. Death to this vile, over-priced, customer-cheating format. Death to it I say!

 

Posts like this make me fear for the future of our country...

...obviously somebody didn't have to walk to school in the snow (barefoot, of course) uphill both ways like Jess, CaveDave & me.

 

It's not that folks "can't", it's that often, we don't want that much of a given beer at a time. I like variety, and if I'm gonna have 2 beers, generally I want 2 different beers. Not 2 of the same beer.

 

Well, since OP is from, or at least in, Korea, we have no idea how far he must travel to get the beers, and then get home with them. I do most of my grocery shopping on foot, and adding a few 22's to the bags adds a bunch of weight in a hurry.

 

OMG...I can't believe I missed that @beertunes.

Huge apologies OP....definitely my bad.

:::sits in corner for 30 min. timeout & no beer allowed:::

 

Well, let's be reasonable here. You still get 30 minutes in the corner, but you can 1 beer. In fact, it must be a 22 you finish while there, with no potty breaks.

 

I do like bombers. Sometimes i dont want to drink a lot so on my way home from work ill grab one instead of a various sixers or on a special occasion most bombers around here are special styles for me like quads and barrel aged stuff, expensive sometimes but i can justify it when i want to.

 

I guess I'm the only alcoholic on Beer Advocate, because drinking a 22 oz beer is easy for me. I hate the price but I put up with it because when I buy a bomber it's because the beer is offered in no other format.

 

I don't prefer high ABV bombers but still buy them if the beer is only available that way. Cost doesn't enter into it until they start getting near $18. With high ABV bombers I drink half, stopper the rest and keep it in the fridge for a couple of hours.

 

I don't like bombers for three reasons (primarily):
1. They don't fit well in my beer 'fridge
2. They are usually more than I want to drink, especially for higher ABV or new-to-me beers, (this is mitigated with a stopper, so it is not a huge deal), and
3. Far too many brewers put ordinary beers in bombers and price them like they are something special. I can forgive this one for a start-up brewer who intends to move to a more customer-friendly package soon, but all you other guys putting your IPAs, pales, ambers, etc., etc... in over-priced bombers? Just stop it.

 

And we didn't commonly use backpacks back then, either - back when a "big bottle" of beer was a heavy thick-glass, returnable/refillable 32 ounce quart bottle, not some puny 22 oz. "bomber"

I mean, carrying them things to school was a b*tch! The edges of the crowns would dig into our fingers! (Oh, wait, now I'm confusing the two topics...)

Wasn't always the case. The WWII era "bombers" weren't any more expensive, cents per ounce, that the standard 11 and 12 oz. bottles on the west coast. It's only another case of "craft brewer innovation".

SF's Rainier brewery's beer prices, preWWII - between 0.8¢-0.9/ounce, regardless of bottle.

 

Not at all, I'm sure most of us could polish off bombers like its nobody's business.
I was saying personally though that with the price of craft beer (it is the higher end of the market), I would drink myself broke in a year or so. So its not about the drinking, at least for me, its the price over the volume.

 

If I had to choose between price vs volume I'd go with volume.