Ridiculous Prices...

They had those same sours, to-go at their bottle releases (still pricy for most of them at $30) but wanted to be sure people could still come get them for on-site consumption. They had their Eternal Sunshine to-go for $10 per bottle which is sold out I believe and now currently have Terry's Intangible Ales Acidulated Hive for both on-site and take out.

 

For PA it is. Law requires a take-out permit to sell growlers (as a brew pub, they would have that). With that, any beers can be sold to go, up to 192 oz per transaction.

 

What does that have to do with what I said? Were talking about bottles for on site consumption.

 

Whatever happened to just saying "price"?

 

Every bar I've been to in the last 30 years will sell a beer to go if they have the license to do so....

 

My issue is that few people would bat an eye at $50 - $75 for a good bottle of wine. A well crafted beer in a 750 ml is a bargain at $25 when you think about it. I enjoy the flavor of the beer more and it has a higher abv. I paid $22 for Brooklyn Hand & Seal, then served it at dinner with beef short ribs and my guests were blown away. I doubt a $50 merlot would have made any better impression.

 

I know several tasting rooms at breweries that will not. They create a release, sell x amount and save the rest for onsite only so that it gets spread around more. Its a fairly common practice noawadays.

 

Completley agree. This is how I justify alot of special releases as well. Im not cracking a 500 bottle release sour after work on a whim. Same with stouts, barley wines, ect. I have vintages of BCS and varients, Firestone Prop Series, Perennial, Side Project, ect that get saved for holidays, weddings, special events. The beer that is 25$+ is not for regular drinking just like a 50$ bottle of wine is not for every day. The gap between high end beer and wine closes every day.

 

Are you familiar with Pizza Boy?? They pride themselves on having a massive selection of beer to go. It's not a tasting room. It's restaurant with a bar. Maybe it's an Ill thing that hasn't caught on yet here in the Norther East.

 

Ouch buddy. Still $9.99 here in MO.

 

Most everyone I know that drinks wine - even very good wine - still looks for value. There are still good to great wines available in the $10-$25 range. We throw that wine - beer comparison around a lot to justify how much we spend on beer. I have anyway. But that comparison is getting harder to justify the more beer prices go up. Beer is not wine. It cannot be cellared for 50 years (as a rule) and I hope it never holds the same cultural elitist status as wine. I like splurging on good beer (I have my wife out hunting for Parabola today at Costco), but there are plenty of beers I simply will not try because I deem them too expensive. And I am not looking forward to the luxury of this luxury item reaching a level beyond what I am willing to pay.

 

I was at a store recently (I like the store so I won't say the name) and they had bombers of Black Damnation II, III, and IV. They wanted $50 a bottle. I'd love to try them (especially "mocha bomb"), but not at that price. They also had one Cascade sour at $30 a bottle and another at $40.

 

My only point from the begining was that it is not UNHERD of for a store to release a beer and then only offer it for on site consumption AFTER THAT. Thats all I said. Cheers.


You said
Hmmm that sounds very odd, have to drink on-premise, no take-out. Do they sell regular beers for on-site consumption? Any beer to go?

I said
Not odd happens all the time

Cheers again.

 

The cascade prices seem on point. I would have bought the BD's those are fairly low bottle counts if IIRC

 

The main ingredient in beer is water. Water is not expensive. Beer is also perishable. Think about that before you spend 10$ or more on a single bottle.

 

Very well said sir!

I tend to also shop around for my brews. Even most "limited" release items make it to most stores. Shop around enough and you start to get an idea what stores tend to be the cheapest, and what stores get the most of certain releases as well. And because you get to a lot of stores, every once in a while, you find that gem.

 

The main ingreident in Whiskey is water. The main ingredient is Wine is grape juice. It is all about what you turn relativley inexpensive ingredients into that ganer a high price. The Miller Lite is at the end of the case

 

is Parabola out?

 

No wine that is 25$ can be cellared for 50 years. Very few actually can. The ones that can cost more per case than a years woth of beer.

 

hey look this topic again. typical answers...thats cheap compared to the bar, next up the price gouging whiners, then the people that refute the gouging and dont care...followed by someone breaking down the price by ounce and comparing it to bottles, bombers growlers etc. then trying to compare the pricing to entirely diff alcoholic beverages with different processes to make. bottom line if u dont like the price dont pay it and go somewhere else.