Why are the big beers in big bottles?

More sharing, less hoarding?

 

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it is nice to drink ba plead the 5th and hotd big beers without double thinking if you need extra help or not. but knight has a good point, bombers and 750s are ideal for tastings.

 

Chimay comes in little bottles, too. Big beer, small bottles, big price.

 

Chimay is not that expensive IMO. It does get overly marked up, but that can easily be fixed by finding a bargain store!

 

Plenty of good, big beers in 11.2 and 12 oz bottles. Most Belgians cab be found in multiple formats...

 

Lots of Belgian beers come in the 11.whatever bottle. Maybe try those?

 

Use a wine stopper for big imperial stouts, barleywines, & old ales, they aren't going to be carbonated heavily to begin with generally, though I guess you could find some exceptions. It will be fine the next day.

 

To weed out the weak and prove who the real men are! ...

 

So I can fill my CBS snifter with them.

 

Beers age better in larger format bottles, mainly because of the general bad-assery that is associated with big ass bottles. All about the attitude.

 

I'm certain someone will correct me if I'm wrong [and please do if I am], so here goes. It is my understanding that there are no bottling lines for big bottles or it doesn't pay for a small brewery to have 2 bottling lines if a larger line is available, or the conversion to adapt a 12 oz. line to a 22 oz. line is prohibitively expensive. Now since bigger beers are often produced in smaller batches and oftentimes by smaller breweries, it doesn't pay to set up a 12 oz. bottling line for a smaller run nor does it pay to have a second bottling line nor does it pay to set up the bottling line for larger bottles, if that is even possible. Therefore, the bigger beers are hand bottled in bigger bottles and that's another reason for the higher price.

 

Because it encourages you to make friends.


or become a loner alcoholic, not sure which one

 

I'm guessing it's because the price per ounce somehow seems more reasonable in a big bottle. Most people would probably be more likely to shell out $14 for a bomber than $30 for a four-pack or $45 for a six-pack.

I'd rather see more big beers in small bottles myself. In an average drinking session, I don't usually want 22oz of a 10%+ beer. It's one of the many reasons I appreciate Founders. Lots of their big beers would likely come in bombers if they were produced by another brewery.

 

Do you think oenophiles have the same complaint?

 

I'm guessing oenophiles don't as frequently have the option of buying a similar product at a fraction of the price per ounce in a different size packaging. With beer, the cost per ounce varies so much between 12oz bottles and bombers as to draw attention to the comparison. Also, and I'm no expert on this, I believe a bottle of wine once opened lasts considerably longer than a bottle of beer.

 

MarkIntihar gonna MarkIntihar.

 

By "hoarding" do you mean drinking by yourself? because that seems to be the issue the OP is having, and I have run into it myself.

 

and yet BCBS is in 12 oz bottles.