Sweetest Deal

As soul great Clarence Carter once sang:

Love, oh, love, how sweet it is
When you steal it, darling
Let me tell you somethin'
Now how sweet it is

So why would beer be any different?

 

This was not a "sweet deal", it was a pricing screw up that someone no doubt got an ass chewing for. Sucks to be them!

 

My grocery store was selling pick-your-own-6-packs but using the recycled 6-packs (like ML, BL, leinys). I filled up two of these with different craft beers, probably worth $12-$14 a 6'er, but was only charged the $4.99 for the ML 6-pack price.

 

for doing the right thing

 

I bought a case of out of date Veldensteiner dunkel weiß in the .5L amber flip-top bottles for $25.
The beer was undrinkable, but it was less than half the cost for similar reusable bottles.

 

I recently bought a 6-pack of Gouden Carolus Classic bottles for $1.99 on closeout. They weren't exactly next-day fresh, but they weren't that old either.
I'd say that easily makes my all-time great deals list.

 

Mines has gotta be the cases of Kwak that I was getting for under $24 somewhat recently

 

My store recently had Schlitz tallboy 6 packs for $1.75. They don't even normally carry Schlitz so maybe the distributor just dumped them haha.

I also found TenFidy 4 packs for $4.99 on two separate occasions at the same store. They must just mark it down to that price after a certain date.

 

There is a coffee shop and they sell individual bottles that you can open there for $5 OR take home (for like $2-$3). There were a few times that I bought the bottle to go, but I took it out to their outside seating area and popped it open.

 

The last post just reminded me. A true steal (vs capitalizing on pricing errors) that comes to mind is a place that used to operate near my apartment that has unfortunately shut down (not for $$$ reasons). But anyway they were a store/bar/sandwich place hybrid with some tables inside and out the back. They had the (at the time) hands down best growler selection in NYC. You could either buy the growler to go, or to stay (in which case they wouldn’t cap it). Price was the same. So 4 pints of a great local beer shook out to 3-4 bucks each with a tip

 

120..ewww...You over paid!

 

I was in my local grocery store and saw 6 16oz cans of Old Nations Boss Tweed (a solid 9+ % NEIPA) in the build your own 6 pack for $9.99. This beer retails for $17 a four pack...

 

Whereabouts?

 

Place by me had 4 packs of 2016 Straffe Hendrik Wild Tripel for $4.99.

 

My Hy-Vee dumped a bunch of four packs of "old" TenFidy into a discount cart and marked them down to $4.00. Nothing like a nice, cheap shelf-aged stout, eh?

 

Found Tilquin stout rullquin 750s for $10 a bottle and four packs of founders blushing monk for $5 at a local shop.