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Everyone but SC is getting Bomb!, LOL.

 

You can't have your Cake and eat it too. Oh wait, yes you can.

 

ive never purchased this beer, but have gotten it in trade a couple of times in the past. I don't remember going $4$ 10 bucks. Is that the average cost of this beer? I have been keeping an eye out for it to hit FL stores, but I'm not a buyer at $10/12oz.

 

Well damn, I'm gonna go grab a couple more Bomb! is thats the case.

Wonder what the price will be.. $6 a bottle or so? Still not that overpriced, IMO. But hope it's cheaper than that.

I want them to send some Pirate Bomb! I want to try that real bad..

 

That's Pirate Bomb for $10. I imagine regular Bomb is a few bucks cheaper.

If regular Bomb! is $8/12oz, that's a $15 bomber, so it's about what you'd expect to pay for a chocolate, chile, vanilla, coffee imperial stout. Pirate Bomb is that aged in rum barrels.

 

Guy at Bottles in Mt. P. told me they are expecting bomb "soon"

 

I am aware of what the beer is and why it was at that price point, but having never have been in a market where it was sold, was just not aware of the actual cost. I'm not saying it's too high or too low in relation to other comparable beers. I've definitely paid more per oz for other beers in the past. It was just something I had been looking out for here in FL as they started sending it here recently.

 

Having tried the p bomb before, $10/12 oz. is well worth it. Especially if it's to try for the first time. The beer is god-tier.

 

Not sure if it's that great, but I will say this. I'm not huge on chiles in a beer. I do love all the other adjuncts though, but this beer does something outstanding.

The beer however, for being a 13-14% stout, is so tasty, so smooth and balanced, and so damn drinkable it's crazy. It's probably one of my favorite beers now that I've had a couple of them recently.

I'd rather hunt down some of the barrel aged stuff, and more variants from Prairie than others now. I need to find some Pirate Bomb! ASAP.

 

Come to NC baby.

 

Bomb is back on the shelves at 7.99 a bottle. Glad I got a bunch of 4 packs at 12.99.

 

For $8 a bottle it'll probably keep sitting on those shelves. You are talking about GA, right?

 

Yes, GA

Isn't @$8.00 a bottle the "going" rate thought?

 

I have only drank Bomb twice. Once to try it and the other when it was $3.59. probably won't be buying it at the new price point of $7.99. It is not nearly as good as mexican cake or Hunahpu, but they are putting it on par with those bottles. no bueno.

 

Probably several issues in play. The informed consumer in Georgia will understand that they got a great deal on a mispriced beer and that a price increase was not an increase at all, but an inevitable adjustment. Then there's the uninformed consumer who will complain and complain. The only question is which group is more predominant, and frankly, I cannot answer that.

Retailers will probably adjust by no longer opting to sell bomb by the 4-pack, but by the bottle, just to address the issue of mindset that @WckdVbz raises. And let's be honest. Plenty of other bottles are done the same way. De Struise Black Albert is usually $10 a bottle, and many other beers (Westmalle, Rochefort, De Dolle, etc.) are sold the same way, even if costing a couple dollars less. It's all about adjustment and attitude (i.e. quality over quantity).

Here, the market must take over. Lots of people got to sample this fabulous beer, and they'll now have to decide just how fabulous it was for them. I suspect that it will continue to sell, if at a more controlled rate.

 

I heard it would around $6-7 in the ATL market. Slightly more than the OK prices, but far less than the $8-15 you see in the upstates.

At $6-7, I'll still buy a 4 pack and drink it slower and save it for a while. At the $3.59 price, I've been drinking it like it's a cheap local. It's a fine beer, and I don't have a huge issue with the price point, but certainly wouldn't load up.

 

For the typical consumer, they're going to have a hard time paying 2+ times what they paid a couple weeks ago.

Of course, your typical beer consumer isn't in the bomb market anyway..

 

Exactly. I blew through three cases in two days, midweek too, so the heavy business wasn't even going on. Everyone knew what the beer was and were stunned by the price, as they all have seen/heard the going rate, and they'll understand now that it's corrected. From my end, I heard it was Prairie that mispriced it, as AB just sold it at the regular markup. Whatever happened, a lot of people got a steal. Even at the adjusted price, it's still a good deal and great beer for drinking and trade bait.