Brewery Taster Pricing

In Jamaica Plain? I'm ashamed I lived there three years and never visited/took advantage.

 

No idea where it was located, but I believe it was their original building, a big brick building with a lengthy and hands on tour of the place and at the end they sit everyone in long tables and pour pitchers of beer and jokingly mock you if you don't drink enough.

 

East end brewing growler shop in the strip. 8 oz pour for $1 and as many as you want.

 

Night Shift currently charges $8 for 4 * 4 oz and as you said the better beers are more, that went up $2 when they moved.
Mystic now has full pours and still gives free pours.
The beer tours I think push through charging for samplers. They bring in a mass of people at once and talking to some breweries it seems very few purchases end up being made especially comparing the outlay involved plus they crush out the normal visitor who actually is interested enough to visit on their own.

 

FWIW - Night Shift offers 4oz pours of ALL beers. If you order a flight you can only choose from certain ones, but you can buy a single 4oz pour of anything on tap, you never have to purchase a full glass.

 

3 pints or 6 half pints for $10 + keep the glass around here is about normal.

 

ya, it's a pretty good deal, but I have way too much glassware as a direct result!

 

Yep, but when RR is busy, which is pretty much 100% of the time that they're open nowdays, it can take up to an hour to get the sampler. They try to give estimates of how long it will take for you. One and done for me, but it was fun.

 

My wife and I just completed our second of two long pub crawls in the last 6 weeks. We hit 50 breweries during that time, and ordered one or two sampler flights at all but three places. Flights ranged from 4 samples at several pubs to 19 samples (Russian River). Just about all samples were 4-5 ounce glasses, and costs ran from $5 at several places to $15 (Russian River).

Just about every place we visited on these two trips is a true brewpub with food being served too, but several of the places on the western tour were pure brewery tasting rooms. However, these breweries served flights like the brewpubs. But in Massachusetts and Vermont we ran into the situation that the brewery 'tasting room' (not a brewpub) offered only a small 1-2 ounce taste (free at Fiddlehead), and it seemed that the expectation existed that we should purchase beer to go. (Which we didn't want to do because we're on an extended trip, plus the fridge at home is already packed from the last trip.) We stopped at only two of these places, so maybe others are different. Both MA and VT seemed to have a lot more places that were in the Brewery category (here on BA) when compared to the Brewpub (Brewery/Eatery on BA) category than what we normally see here in Michigan (probably only 7-8 are brewery category out of 160+ breweries/pubs), and we wanted to be able to sit and relax with a flight rather than stand at a bar and 'taste' beers, thus we avoided Brewery tasting rooms during the rest of our trip.

To answer the OP's question, the cost and quantity of the samplers varies (the 4-5 oz. seems pretty standard), but it's also necessary to differentiate from a sampler to a taster too.