Thoughts on Boom Island

There stuff is pretty decent, just not worth anywhere near the price they are charging. I don't see them making it unless they change up their packaging/pricing.

 

I wouldn't pay $10+ for a Pour Decisions bomber, either.

Like the wise man said, breweries ought to establish themselves &/or make top-notch stuff before they think they can charge a premium for their beer.

And, sadly, the 'going rate' is a Minnesota thing. Go out west to California or Washington & there are a ton of bombers in the Steel Toe price range ($5-7), probably because there's so much more competition our there.

Slapping a big price tag on product for a new brewery is just stupid. Your generic beer drinker isn't going to pick it up. Even us rabid rabbits are only going to pick it up if the product is consistently excellent (see: Olvalde Farms). To my way of thinking, you're shooting yourself in the foot by doing what Boom Island is doing with their bottle prices.

 

Better then Schells or Dancin' Man? I only had it once at a fest, maybe I should try it again.

 

Schells is great, but I think Wooden Weizen is better. Dancing Man borders on the line with being a weizenbock so I don't think it should be directly compared to Wooden Weizen. With that said, I would still drink more Wooden Weizen than Dancing Man.

 

Interesting. Im guessing I would stick with Schells since you can get a 12pk for less then a growler, but I wouldnt mind trying it on tap sometime.

 

I paid $6.99 for a 750 of Lucette Double Dawn. Fruity and spicy belgian golden ale that I thought was a very good beer and was a very fair price.

 

Actually, the distributor messed up the pricing. Double Dawn should have been much more expensive. Some retailers still reflected the incorrect lower price.

 

Out of curiosity, what was it supposed to be priced at?

 

I wondered that, as Double Dawn was the same price as Shining Dawn at most places I saw it. Im guessing it will be around the ten dollar mark.

 

The Brimstone tripel is one of my favorite and easily my favorite one made in the US of the style around. It's fantastic and also matches incredibly well with milk chocolate.

I recommend it as previously mentioned here as well.

 

I thought the Silvius and Thoprock were pretty solid beers. The Dubbel and Tripel were pretty damn good IMO. I've heard some people having carbonation issues with this brewery but I have not experienced any myself. Cellars in Eagan says they are dropping them because they still have bottles from their one and only original shipment. I was kinda shocked to hear this.

 

Drinking a Brimstone now. Outstanding beer.

 

Schells has been my #1 for years....Dancing Man was a little boozy last year and not an apples to apples comparison. I will tell you this. Groveland had Schells and Wooden Weizen...I did a blind taster right on the spot and they were remarkably similar but I ended up picking the Wooden Weizen when I had to make a call....I like sweeter/banana/vanilla forward hefe's and this one is outstanding...as is Schells...

 

Probably about $9.99. But I'm not exactly sure.

 

This is a very interesting conversation coming from the perspective for most of my life as a patron but now as a brewer. It's also the first time I've heard that my 750s are expensive. I pretty much base everything on the how, why, what and specialty that went into making it.The Maroon and Bold, basically a big strong (7.5%) Imperial red ale made with 100% MN ingredients was $8.The next batch of Grodziskie I do will go into bottles and be like $6 or so. When we start doing 22oz (not the 25oz=750ml but still) of Pubstitute (3.1%) and Patersbier (5.7%) they'll hit stores at like $3.49 and $4.99. As for the funky/ traditional sour beers like Acerbity ($9) and Salinity (2/$20). St Whatshername I'm releasing tomorrow is a 9% Belgian Tripel completely fermented with 3 types of Brett which had been aged for 4 months I'm selling for $15. Shortly I'll be aging a proper KKKK Strong Stock ale (~12%) in quarter cask whiskey barrels for release fall/winter...I've yet to work up pricing on it but it will reflect the type of beer, the time, wood, etc...all the sundry expenses. All that said, I never base any of my products on how much people are willing to pay rather on what one is getting for their dollar.

Also, there are a lot of beers that it don't make sense for me to put into bottles because at the brewery we are only allowed to sell 750ml bottles. These Belgian Amber Champagne are cool and all but massively more expensive by the bottle than the standard 22oz brown glass. Most times you just want a vessel in which gets capped and not looking for something super fancy. Hopefully they'll let us sell 22oz in the near future.

So if anyone wants to chat about things like this shoot me an email kristen @ pourdecisionsbrewery dot com or just swing by the taproom.

 

I didn't mean to insinuate that your bottles were over priced, I was merely stating that the cost people were so upset about seemed pretty close to the price I've been paying for your funkies. I will continue to drive an hour plus to pay those prices, until I can convince you to send a couple bottles southward and save me the trip.. So i am such spending the money because I like the beer and the liquor store shelves aren't running over with bw's and goses.[/quote]

 

This. I avoided them for the price tag alone for a while (especially since I hadn't had a single beer store suggest it when asking "What's new that I should try?")

Then someone finally suggested I try Yule, so I purchased a bottle for $15. Just terrible.

After that, I'm never going to spend money on another bottle from them.