Brewery Taster Pricing

How many beers, which beers, and what quantity of each?

 

I mean free is always better, but $10 for 35oz of beer isn't horrible by any means

 

Seems reasonable...35 oz of beer. You might be paying $10 for 2 beers and then you only are able to try two different beers or two styles. We do have to pay for the convenience of trying 5 beers in medium sized pours

 

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Yeah for five 7oz pours that is not bad at all.

 

It's not unusual for a brewery to roll-out with free tasters at the brewery. It allows them to get a ton of people through the doors quickly and lets folks get a taste of everything. Good business practice.

I don't know of too many places that give away free tasters nowadays, especially w/o a tour.

 

Only free one I've been to is Abita. It's open for a couple hours. They give you a cup. There's a do a fountain type thing of most of their beer. Help yourself, watch a video, and take a brief tour. It's lovely.

Terrapin charges 10 for 8 quarter pours. Usually ends up being 8 half pours. Sometimes 8 full pours if it's your birthday, flirt, or tip.

Creature Comforts was $12 for 6 quarter pours and a food coupon. Pours were consistently 3/4 pours, though. Apparently measurement just isn't a thing in Athens.

Cantillon is like....8 euro, maybe? You get two small glasses of your choice of lambic, geuze, iris, kriek, and maybe framboise. It's been awhile since I've done it. Usually just let my friends go and I sit at the bar drinking vintage Zwanze >_>

 

Noble ale works charges 9$ for 5 6oz ish tasters. The bruery charges by the beer for a taster usually 1-2$ depending on the beer.

 

I think that every brewery I've been to has been different. Sometimes it has to do with liquor licenses- some are limited in the amount they can pour (only 2 oz tasters, for instance, might mean they're $1).

I prefer a "choose your own" where you write in the names- Alpine does this very well. They then arrange (4 or 6 tasters, usually around 6 oz each) in a muffin tin that is numbered based on what you chose. If they suggest a different order they will tell you. I think the flights are $7 or $10.

 

MKE Brewing Co used to give you a glass and allow unlimited fills while you were on tour (and after your tour). Now they limit. I'm not sure I'd want to drink more than 2 pints of their beer, but folks used to get hammered there.

 

There's no such thing as a free buzz anymore. In my book, it went away around the same time as the free lunch.

 

I'd say most tasters offer between 24-36oz of beer and charge between $7-12.

I went to Harpoon last month and was kind of surprised their sampler was $9, but it's Boston so prices are always going to be nuts.

 

Mass law - they have to charge if you're sampling more than 2oz. So in the past it was either free and 2oz max pours or they got in trouble with the law.

Jack's Abby does 4 or 5 oz pours of almost everything on tap for $1-$4 per depending on the beer. Clown Shoes contract brews so there's no "them" to visit.