Lifehacker: Why You Should Avoid Craft Beer In Big Bottles

The best format is 12oz bottles and even better for consumer is at a place where you can buy them as a single (fresh of course...not stale grocery store singles). Spend the least and still get to sample 12oz of beer.

 

IMO @bubseymour has the proper answer here. Put the beer in a 12 ounce bottle/can and if a 4/6 pack is too much of a commitment for you just buy a single bottle at a bottle shop (but check the date first).

Cheers!

 

For limited releases bombers are fine IMO. However I will never understand putting shelfies in bombers.

 

It would appear that way, but economy of scale effects a brewer's cost much more the size of the bottle. More beer is bought and distributed in 12-oz bottles or cans, and the sheer amount produced keeps prices of those formats lower. However, if consumers are accustomed to paying certain prices for a larger bottle format the beer's price could be raised independently of production costs to whatever the market will bear.

 

I just avoid the things . . . an empty is dangerous in the hands of an angry wife.

 

It is my guess this is the proper explanation here.

What I do know for certitude is that other beverages (soda, milk, OJ, etc.) are priced at lower prices/ounce as the size of the package increases. A gallon of milk is a much better deal for price/ounce than a pint of milk.

Cheers!

 

I frequently pass on beer because of the 22oz format and think its a unnecessary hurtle for a lot of new breweries. Beer is one of those funny luxury products, while not necessary to live its embedded in our culture just like Coffee, Tea, Soda, etc.. and will be bought regardless if you make 6 figures or 15 bucks an hour.

With that said lets use a coffee analogy,

By only making bombers your going to sell mainly to the Starbucks crowd, while if you sell in the 12oz format your customers expand to the Dunkin Donuts crowd as well. I can see that Margin over Volume is preferred to an new Brewery but it's just not viable with competition growing daily and companies who have been in it for a while see that a smaller format is the only way to expand their customer base. I see the bomber format being a key factor for when the craft beer bubble bursts.

 

Not always, local bar has great divide barrel aged old ruffian for $6 a 10 oz pour. Bomber price is $20+

 

Ha! Those aren't even bombers, they are 500ml. That's the most overpriced format of all.

I love the 500ml format and the 16 oz can, but the price needs to be right (Maine's prices are not). Bombers...not a fan, but there is nothing I can do about it for some beers. I've been pleased that some brewers replaced bombers with 4 packs of 12 oz bottles. Even if pricey it's a better format.

 

Larger bottles as a "single serving" (or a single evening's tipple) are okay every so often, and depending on the style. I much prefer to share a bomber or 750mL with another person, whether at home or in a social setting.

I generally prefer 12oz (bottle or can) multi-packs, for budgetary and service size reasons.

 

I don't understand how there's a new thread on this every week.

Volume discount. Literally high school economics. The reason that a six-pack of something is cheaper per oz than a bomber is the reason that BJ's or Sam's Club exists. The more you spend on a product the cheaper that product is per unit. How does this need to be explained so many times?

 

Surely that's understandable in your own case. But for those whose frame and mass is of smaller proportions, it can be as much a matter of metabolism changing as we get older as it is a lessening of desire for the effect ('buzz') of the beverage.

Usually, it only takes a couple of 12oz servings (of normal strength beer) and I am good to go!

 

single 12oz > 4 packs > Bombers > 6 packs

 

I don't mind bombers as I usually shared that beer among a group of people.

 

You should get a new wife

 

Beer is cheaper than divorce.

 

Sometimes a brew you're curious about only comes in a bomber. What I do is split one with my son, if we both like it, we share the cost. If only one of us likes it, he who liked it bears the cost. And if it tastes like Old Panther Piss, neither of us has to choke down 22 OZ we don' t really like.

 

My son and I do much the same thing but he hasn't yet caught on to that cost sharing part.