Most Overpriced Breweries?

Mikkeller, Evil Twin, The Bruery, Allagash...

 

about 95% of it, sadly.

 

I have a hard time understanding how people can think the average craft beer is overpriced. Are you referring to $10 six packs with some specialty beers at $10 per four pack? Even a $6 bomber. And that is average, which would assume 50% of the beer, not 95%. For the average consumer, those prices are pretty reasonable. And the beers in your avatar are pretty much all 2x the price or more of the average craft beer.

 

LA's higher range beers are very overpriced. In most markets, they sell 375ml bottles for $17-$18. I think they'd be fairly priced (but still high) if they were 750ml instead of 375 at that price.

Think about it this way. Older Viscosity is about three times the price per ounce as KBS and is a very similar beer. It's also twice the price per ounce as Parabola and BA BORIS. Red Poppy is three times the price per ounce as Rodenbach Grand Cru. Angel's Share is equally as overpriced next to its competition.

I can think of very few beers that are as expensive as LA. They're mostly good, but definitely overpriced.

 

And Black Betty is mediocre at best. I sprung for it one time, and because of that I will never purchase anything from Nebraska unless the prices are cut in thirds.

 

Rockmill. I find it hard to pay $14 for a 6% abv Wit that was made less than 2 hours away from me.

 

Jolly Pumpkin for me. The only one that I've tried so far that was worth the money was iO Saison.

 

All mentioned before, but I'll add in votes for Lost Abbey, Nebraska, Mikkeller, and Evil Twin.

Lost Abbey...not to mention their QC issues, but a lot of the regular offerings are pricey and this year Red Poppy went from $18 or so last year to something like $21 or $26 (can't remember which, I think $26) at my local shop. WTF?

Evil Twin is disappointing on so many levels I don't even know where to start. I was trying everything he was putting out for a while but it's fucking stupid to buy a $15 mediocre IPA when you can get so, so much more for that money. I had a bottle that was ~$15, Without You I'm Nothing, that was the most offensive tasting thing I've had in a long, long time. When I asked him about it he just said something like, "It's not for everyone so whatever. We don't stick to styles, it's neobrewing." I do appreciate the good stuff, like Biscotti, but it's way too much of a gamble to try just any old thing from him. Just like Mikkeller.

As for Nebraska, their stuff is OK to tasty, but holy hell those prices are insane. Maybe they should cut back on the massively heavy bottles and save some money to pass along to the consumer.

 

I think it is also overpriced, and their restaurant (or w/e you call it) in Ann Arbor is a total rip off. Beer is average, food is average, prices are high on both.

I'll never go there again, nor will I buy their beer again. I know some people locally who love it. To each their own.

 

Any IPA from Europe is pretty much not worth my money anymore in a bottle...I've had draft Mikkeller before, and it was largely fresh and reasonably tasty, but the bottles? Yeah...no.

 

Whoever the hell said North Coast is nuts.

I agree with everyone on Bruery. I would also add Russian River for their sours (their IPAs and non-sour Belgians aren't too badly priced though). I love them to death, but I live about 45 minutes from the brewery, yet their beers cost as much as Cantillon here.

 

In my area (CT, so pretty far from the source), anything by Stone. I love Ruination but it's like $19 for a six pack. Forget that.

 

Not one vote for Hoppin Frog??? Their bombers go from $9-$12. They can keep that shit.
Alesmith are also pricy

 

My vote is for Allagash. They do well-made Belgian style beers but they just aren't worth $20 a bomber when other breweries are now doing similar quality Belgian influenced beers in the $12-15 range.

 

Which North Coast beers are you referring to? Old Rasputin is by far one of the best values around, IMO. I can get it for $8.99 per 4 pack, how much are you paying? If you're referring to the barrel aged Old Raspys, then yes, those are way too expensive, but still damn good.

 

I thought their dubbel and tripel ran for about $10/750mL. The barrel aged Curieux runs about $20, but the barrel aging process is a significant added cost.

 

WTH? Great Divide has awesome prices, pretty much all their 22oz. bombers are in the $7-$8 range, the only $26 beers in their lineup is their 4 BA beers. That's four beers out of 25 that they brew.

I pretty much agree with everyone else on these:
Mikkeller, Evil Twin, The Bruery, FiftyFifty

Cascade is up there as most of their bottles are $17-$21, but they're sours so understandably higher than other styles. Most sours in general are in the $14-$24 range.

 

Huh, I was visiting CT, and bought a bomber of Stone IRS because it was only $6.99 rather than the $8.50-$8.99 I'd always seen in MA. Still, at that bargain price, per oz it was about the same as Ten Fidy, which is just as good if not better and comes in a more convenient serving size, and that's the one people are always saying "Jeez, I can't pay that price".

 

Lost Abbey 375ml beers, Bruery just about everything, North Coast -bal stuff, of course the worst offender is Nebraska.

Rogue? when did a $10 six pack and $6 bombers become expensive, I undesrstand a lot of you don't like their beer, but it's not like dropping $18 on a flat 375 of Angels Share.

 

Agree with Mikkeller.
I think The Bruery has fair prices for the majority of their beers.