Cable Beverages Cantillons

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  1. mark14580

    mark14580 Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2011 New York

    Good Beer doesn't have the same model. You can't open bottles there.

    I thought Top Hops charged a premium for bottles opened there? Though I could be wrong.
     
    #21 mark14580, Mar 15, 2013
  2. Quackus

    Quackus Initiate (0) Mar 28, 2012 New York

    Top Hops charges a $2 capping fee for bottles consumed on premises. The net result is that when you buy a bottle of a standard shelf beer, you pay $2-3 to take it away or $4-5 to drink it there and when you buy a large format beer, you basically pay ordinary bottle shop prices either way.

    Not even in the same league as Bierkraft or Eagle and, genuinely, a hell of a deal.
     
    #22 Quackus, Mar 15, 2013
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  3. mark14580

    mark14580 Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2011 New York

    I didn't mean to compare prices. I just said that those two places operate different models.
     
    #23 mark14580, Mar 15, 2013
  4. Quackus

    Quackus Initiate (0) Mar 28, 2012 New York

    Got it. No worries.

    Point remains, though: Top Hops -> Good; Bierkraft, Eagle -> Bad
     
    #24 Quackus, Mar 15, 2013
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  5. mark14580

    mark14580 Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2011 New York

    agreed
     
    #25 mark14580, Mar 15, 2013
  6. Onizilla

    Onizilla Initiate (0) Apr 25, 2009 New York

    I'm fairly sure they just ordered off the internet to sell it, They're still on premise only in NY state as far as I'm told.
     
    #26 Onizilla, Mar 15, 2013
  7. tobelerone

    tobelerone Grand Pooh-Bah (4,220) Dec 1, 2010 New Jersey
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    Cantillon definitely does appear in NYC bottleshops. Got a 750 LP Kriek last year at new beer for thirty bucks.
     
    #27 tobelerone, Mar 15, 2013
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  8. Rockstrongo

    Rockstrongo Initiate (0) Jun 5, 2010 New York

    You have been misinformed. Several beer stores in NYC and north of the city still get Cantillon distributed.
     
    #28 Rockstrongo, Mar 15, 2013
  9. Onizilla

    Onizilla Initiate (0) Apr 25, 2009 New York

    Interesting, This I'll have to look in to. NYC and myself use the same distributor and have consistently been told that it's sold for on sight consumption only. Off to the phones with I!
     
    #29 Onizilla, Mar 15, 2013
  10. TongoRad

    TongoRad Grand Pooh-Bah (3,884) Jun 3, 2004 New Jersey
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    I don't know what distributor Cable uses, but they occasionally have Cantillon beers. The last time was in December, when the Bruocsella Grand Cru was on the shelves for a couple of days. All they got in this time was a 12-bottle case, though, which is obviously gone by now.
     
    #30 TongoRad, Mar 15, 2013
  11. sandman3479

    sandman3479 Initiate (0) Dec 8, 2006 Connecticut

    There's a few places up here (NY, not CT) that get it too...
     
    #31 sandman3479, Mar 16, 2013
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