Lunch on tap

The only time I bother with Lunch is for $6 a pint in Central Mass, just outside the Boston bullshit bubble. Inside the bullshit bubble I'm pretty sure I just saw Peeper for $11 a pour at Lord Hobo last night.

 

That's messed up. I had Peeper on draught at the Great Lost Bear in Portland recently for exactly half of that. That's definitely the cheapest I have seen it, but $6.00 seems to be the going rate around Maine and New Hampshire.

 

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For Peeper that is. Most of the other beers cost $7.00

 

I guess "Do what's right" means jack the price for Boston, lol

 

All prices are jacked in Boston, breweries don't set retail pricing, bar owners do. Miss those old forum threads that calculated how much was being made per keg (not that they changed anything).

 

Last summer I found it at Union Brew House in Weymouth for the usual (for them) $6 or so a pint. It was a real pint too - 16 oz (not Imperial at 20.) Had a few of them with lunch as SWMBO was at a baby shower.

 

20 oz of another one in hudson for $8. Good deal.

 

At the Horseshoe or Rail Trail?

 

Horseshoe.

 

Had a few full 16 oz pours of lunch Saturday in So Maine for $7. I agree that it did taste really good and almost looked a bit different. Pretty clear too. Bought a bottle about 2 weeks ago that was bottled that week and drank it within days. Tasted nothing like the draft pours. This has for years kept me away from buying lunch bottles. I used to think it was just me. Also had a pour of the Liquid Riot (Infinity) Experimental IPA they have on tap. That stuff was turbid and delicious.

 

Slightly off topic, but had MO on tap on Cape Cod last summer and it was utterly amazing. Price was reasonable too...cheaper than in the bottle I believe.

 

We have Peeper on tap all summer at the bar at the end of my street(summer cottage) on the Beach here in So Maine. Its nice sitting on the patio after a surf enjoying a few of those. I think $7. Even better is the end of the season when everything drops to $3 drafts.

 

Had it on tap at Carriage Inn and Saloon. I think I paid $7. But i'm glad they had it because I've never tried it before.

 

I don't fault MBC for the draft pricing of lunch anymore than I fault them for the $9 bottles I see in the city. What I don't get it why/how bars still think this is appropriate pricing for this beer.

 

Because people in the city will pay

 

They pay because the odds are stacked against them.

Easy to see how laws/system conspire to make Mass the most expensive beer market in the US. Not even a contest, and won't change soon thanks to the retail & distro lobby coasting on anti-consumer/pro-insider laws protecting them.

But hey, beer geeks can count on "selection" (countless beers rotting on shelves throughout MA) to justify the current state, right....

 

"beer geeks" are such a small inconsequential amount of people who actually care about shelf turds, pour size, etc for the lobby you speak of. They only care about consumption and over consumption of what moves fast.