Visiting Seattle (Winter 2015 Update)

Of what will most likely be there, my favorites are

Hoppy Birthday > Nelson > Duet... everything else.

THOUGH i have never had this Green Flash version of things - so who knows. When its on, Hoppy Birthday is my #2 pale ale ever.

 

Valholl is decent. If you're willing to head over that way, you can put together a nice little group of brewery visits.

 

If you really only have a few hours, just stop by Fremont and Holy Mountain. Fremont has Bbomb on tap still and I'm sure there will be things at Holy Mountain you'll enjoy.

 

Thank you so much!

 

Ah, missed the fact that he was only gonna be here a few hours. Yeah, stick with the Fremont/Ballard areas.

 

Well that information just forced me to reconsider the structure of my entire weekend.

 

The Sister was also recently on tap at Chuck's 85th for the same "unreasonable" price. I recall an explanation a couple months ago from a Chuck's employee, in which it was stated that a percentage-based mark-up was their protocol. By this I think it was meant that if they only got a small amount of bottles, or a small keg, of a given beer, the price for it would accordingly be much higher. By the same token, if they got a lot of bottles, or a big keg, it'd be proportionately lower. From a consumer's perspective, this price fluctuation makes very little sense; and you can vote with your wallet by not paying a hugely marked-up price for a beer you know you can find elsewhere in town (in this case, at Fremont, in a 4-pack) much more cheaply. But from a small business's perspective--like Toronado's or Chuck's--it's considerably less insane. For them it makes a certain amount of sense, I suppose, to charge more--consistently, as a practice--when their particular inventory of something is very small, regardless of what that something is.

 

What is the per can price at Fremont for Sister? It was $3/can where I got it, so just bought one can.

 

$9 for a 4-pack.