I said this before but I once found Westvleteren XII for 30€ in a beer store in France. Of course price tag wasn’t under the single “Holy Grail” bottle and I had to ask, that was a polite no thanks.
I'm becoming a beer coupon seeker and am sort of wistfully awaiting beers on sale or special. Did well on my last little run.
Wow! That's amazing. I would love to have pricing like that, however we live in the United States of Profit. Well, not so much United but definitely profit, after all the business of America is business.
As a beer consumer when I see those prices I think to myself: those are some awesome low prices!! As a beer advocate I can't help but wonder how in today's world of high prices (e.g., high grocery prices, high energy prices, high insurance prices,...) can those German breweries remain profitable at those low prices. Do you understand this aspect? Prost. @einhorn @Erzengel
Lots of this around Brussels. The cheapest that I saw was 14€ in Bruges. Apparently you can get it for 5€ in the Netherlands quite easily.
Most places in Belgium (where I am currently) have increased their prices a bit over the last few years. However, some small (off the main area) grocery stores still have reasonable prices. This is easily $8 per bottle in the US now.
Yep. Belgian Trappist/Abbey Ales are very pricey in the US (unfortunately). That is why I choose to homebrew my own Belgian Ales (e.g., Dubbels, Quads, Tripels, Saison, etc.). Cheers!
Specialty beer is going to be priced higher. Compare to wine. Beer packaging is probably higher -- smaller containers cost more for the same volume. Almost all wine has a longer shelf life, meaning lower shipping, handling, and less loss. I try to find some reasonable regional regular beers. My six pack of canned, vaguely Brit style, pale ale has gone up about 15% in the last 3 years to about $12-13. A half case of my preferred bottled or canned WC IPA is still less than $20. For a lager, i don't have a good regional option. I'll go with Rothaus Tannenzapfle for now, which has the full body that I look for and a price that I'll tolerate, somewhere north of $15.
If it is available to you I recommend Von Trapp Bavarian Pilsner. I discussed this beer in a side-by-side with Rothaus Tannenzapfle: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-beer-weekend-21.651977/#post-7116379 In the past I purchased standalone six-packs of Bavarian Pilsner. A few weeks ago I purchased the Von Trapp Pilsner Pack (12-pack) which includes 3 cans of Bavarian Pilsner. Prost!
I just got back from my beer shop in Partenkirchen here in the Alps. Got a rack of 20x500ml bottles Ayinger Weizen mixed, a rack of Ayinger Maibock, a rack of Aventinus and six loose beers all for about 70$.
I looked at your review, and it looks promising. I tried a few of their offerings a few years ago and I wasn't too excited about those. Von Trapp beers are marginally available around me, according to their website (30 miles to a beer store that sells 2 or 3 Von Trapp lagers).
Breweries that have been around for decades/centuries probably have less real estate and infrastructure debt to service. Probably other factors too, but that’s what first came to mind.
Well this is true. These are premium breweries. There are beers here which are Not Bad for 9.99 a rack of twenty. These beers are for my home Bar. We get alot of visitors.
(sigh) I remember back in the late 70s/early 80s when I was a poor, broke college student & could only afford Buckhorn at 99 cents a six pack of 12 ounce cans just to have any, "beer". Our joke back then was a riff on the Payless Footwear slogan, "You could pay more.......but you certainly can't pay less!" We thought we were in hog heaven when we could afford a $2 six pack of Old Milwaukee, a $2.50 six pack of Strohs or an ungodly expensive $3 six pack of Budweiser....... And for Christmas, a $5 six pack of Heiney was our annual holiday treat..... ....my how times have changed.......
Which one? Both Lone Star (which owned the famous Buckhorn Saloon) and Theo. Hamm had "price" (aka "economy" segment) brands named Buckhorn. Coincidentally, during that same era both brewers would - briefly - be owned by Olympia. IIRC, the 2 Buckhorns were sorta combined into 1, brewed at all 3 breweries (Olympia, San Antonio, St. Paul) --- but gone was the "Masculine" red can.
