Craft Beer Prices

20oz breakfast stouts? Here they are about 10oz and cost $7-8 per. Makes the 4 pack look like a great deal.

Enjoy

 

I am assuming these are city prices. Where I live bdubs only charges 4.50 for a tall draft of Columbus IPA. That may be the cheapest price. Our local breweries charge 3-5 dollars for a pint.

Columbus on the other hand will break your wallet. Anywhere from 6-12 for a good beer. I will usually switch to cheap beer on a night out.

 

Lovely. Another price thread. Yes this is an expensive hobby. Just as any luxury in life is. And yes we all should kno that eating or drinking at bars and restaurants costs more than doing so at home. Why is this surprising to some people?

 

I have a hard time justifying buying good beer out as well when I can just go to the lbs and pick up a single bottle for 50% or less of what a pub charges. The only way I spend money that way is if it's something I know I can't get anywhere else. Some places in Saint Louis are starting to charge as much as $7 for a pint of normal craft brew. I dunno... maybe it's because I just enjoy sitting on my couch drinking beer in the comfort of my own house. I just don't feel like I should pay a 100% or bigger markup just to drink in somebody else's place.

 

That seems like an overly large serving.

That seems even more overly large.

I don't know how long you were there, but that doesn't sound like "under .05"

 

THANK GOD IT AIN'T WINE YER DRINKIN'.

 

Was out yesterday afternoon in Brewdog bar and for £25 (about$40) had
1/3 UK pint of ,
Deviant Dales
Ten Fidy
Hercules IPA
Yeti
Alesmith Wee Heavy (free)
2/3 pint Dales Pale Ale
2/3 Alechemy Daylight Strawberry and
1/2 pint Brewdog Cocoa Psycho

Tasted some awesome beers, knowledgeable bar staff and was just as happily drunk as I would have been with 7 pints of Stella Artois In a normal pub for the same cost which I'd say is great value for money.

Drinking decent beer at home in Scotland does cost about double that of drinking Stella, Heineken etc. Way more enjoyable though!

 

Yup I adds up. My wife and I like to go to our favourite spot for burgers and beers. It's cash only and every time I always think 100 is more than enough for a burger and a few rounds. But it's not long before I'm counting out some crumpled ones and hoping they'll cover the last beers.

 

Is this Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh or Glasgow?

 

Obviously everything is local, and prices vary widely. I spend a lot of time in Madison, Chicago, and Champaign-Urbana. If I go out to get a drink, I feel like beer is almost free in Champaign-Urbana(get a decent pint for $3.50 at lots of places, even had KBS on tap for $5 this year); and can't believe the prices in Chicago(more than double CU), while Madison is in the middle.

 

Agree another price thread is about as useful as another "top 10 IPA" thread. However, I don't think it is an expensive hobby. I could be very happy with $100/month towards beer, but that would be tough for single malt scotch and wine hobbies...let alone something like world travel. Even my kids piano lessons cost more than that.

 

Dundee, it's one of the best only 3 decent beerpubs in Dundee.

 

I once paid $7 plus tip for a fake pint of a session lager for which the brewery charges $9 per 64 oz growler. That stung. There were no prices on the menu. I thought I was safe. I rarely go out for drinks anymore and when I go out for lunch with the family I usually get water.

 

I lived in the UK for a while, am originally from Australia, but live in Chicago now. And I have noticed that of the 3 countries, going out for beers in the UK was by far and away the most reasonable without huge markups. Australia wasn't hugely marked up either (beer is just expensive there in general), but I think the social pub culture in the UK makes a big difference, and prices are a big part of that. When I was living in London, we rarely sat around the house and had beers - we walked a few blocks to the local pub for a few.

For some reason, going out in the US is considered an event, but in the UK it is something you just do 3 or 4 times a week

 

Definitely. I'm from Scotland. Lived in London for 2 years and have been in NYC for nearly 7. Other than a party at someone's house, or a few tinnies in the garden in the summer, it was pretty much all pub when in the UK. I try and keep that spirit alive over here, but it ain't cheap haha

 

It has been 10 years for me, so perhaps time is dulling my sensitivity to cost of going out in London - it might have gotten way higher than it used to be, but at least as I remember it was much more reasonable relative to other things when I was there.

 

It seems like bar prices are on a logarithmic scale. Looking at the place in town with the biggest range and depth of craft I can get:

Two Hearted, Founders Porter, or Lagunitas Cappucino for $4.50. 16, 13 , and 13 oz pours.

DFH Olde School is $9.50 for a 10 oz pour. Really?
FFF Blot out the Sun (10 oz) is $12.50

I can't believe those beers are all operating on the same profit margin. I know I sure as hell didn't pay $10 for a 12 oz pour of Blot at the brewery and I can get a bomber of it right now for $15.

 

That is a great point. My night out on Friday would have been relatively cheap if I had stuck to Alpha King and Old Rasputin (on Nitro) that were both $6 for a 12oz 'pint' (the 12 oz pint still pisses me off).
We didn't though, we went for the big boys and were paying $10-15 a snifter for ~9oz pours.

 

In Europe do they really sell beers by in one third of pint increments or are you converting them since Americans are highly challenged when it comes to units of measurement?

 

Prices are up, and London definitely a lot pricier than the rest of the UK as you'd expect. But I think your point still applies definitely. I was over a few months ago and had a few pints at The Harp with some friends before dinner. Pints (the imperial variety) were around 3.50-4.00 quid IIRC. So that's basically 6 bucks (with no need for an additional tip).

Having said that, The Harp serves (excellent) real ale. I suppose a more apples to apples comparison would be somewhere like Brewdog in Shepherds Bush (I went there on the same trip). That place is modeled more on the American beer bar, and the beers (and prices) reflect that.