Stores selling beer that isn't distributed to them...

I think what semibaked was refering to was the fact that beer, because it is a luxury item, can't be "gouged" so to speak. Safe food, clean water, some amount of electricity, etc. can be gouged as they are necessities (insert "but I need beer to live joke"). It's a term that gets argued about a lot on the BA forums. I know what folks are getting at when they describe and overpriced beer as a store gouging, but in fairness to what real gouging is, and how bad it sucks to be a victim of it, I think it best to steer clear of the term when discussing a luxury item like beer. Just my $0.02.

 

I think Semibaked's point was the term "Price Gouging" is usually referring to a situation where the cost of necessities like food, fuel, housing, etc are raised during a natural disaster or some other emergency.

Beer isn't a necessity, so having overpriced beer isn't gouging. It's just the unpopular effect of supply vs. demand Capitalism.

 

LOL!

 

My local beer store gets a lot of cigar city brewing and to my belief they don't distribute to NY.

 

So when I visit an out-of-state brewery, buy beer in bottles or in a growler and bring it home, I'm committing a Federal offense? Oh nooooooooooooooooooo!

P.S. I think you left out transport alcohol and re-sell it. And it's probably a state offense since you are breaking a state law.

 

FYI - They've started to distribute again depending where you are in NY. Picked up a growler in Brewster last week.

 

as long as it is fairly priced it doesn't bother me.

 

technically the brewery, or a brewery representative has to bring the beer in....nice loose laws, I like it.

 

I bought a bottle of Three Floyds Alpha Klaus from a store in CA. You know what I say? Keep it going!! I am happy to benefit from the nefarious acts of others.

 

Since the thread was about stores that sell beer not distributed to them, it seemed like your point would be obvious. My mistake. I'll try not to make it again.

 

Contraband beer drinks well

 

No, it goes "Snitches get stitches, then end up in ditches OR sleep with the fitches" (had to allow a little creative integrity on that last word.)

 

also I believe in PA it is illegal to bring a bottle of un-registered beer into a bar for a "bottle share."

 

Obviously, I ignored what the thread was about.

 

It doesnt bother me, but we have a guy that does this and he handles it like a real jackass. He displays his rare collection with super inflated prices and then toys with you on whether he really wants to sell them. I think he just puts this shit out to show off what he has. I've been in there a couple of times and have never gone back.

 

Never seen that one enforced.

 

who cares ?

 

right, I just remember Philly Beer Scene/Philly Tap Finder commenting on the fact that they changed venues to a BYOB restaurant because of this.

 

What a peach!

 

Additionally, "having a brewpub" is not a requirement either. Moonlight out of Santa Rosa ("Fulton" if you want to be pedantic) self-distributes. There has been "talk" of a brewpub for years, but there isn't one. Henhouse in Petaluma self-distributes too. While people bitch & moan about the three tier system, unless a brewery has the trucks and sales/delivery forces to service many thousands of customers county-wide/state-wide/nation-wide/world-wide, then there will be "middle-man" distributors.