Your most overpriced buys

Any Founders Backstage series... oh wait CBS was glorious. Sans CBS.

 

This was my first beer release event and probably my last. I arrived an hour early or so and the line was already fairly large. Was about #90 in line and did not partake in any of the delicious beers brought by the wonderfully friendly crowd. The samples of Idiot's Drool I had that night were pretty good, at no point did I sample Idiot's Drool and say it's awful so I ended up getting about 7 or 8 bottles in my case. Ended up having to double check my case and good thing I did because they shorted me on one bottle, which was quickly rectified without issue (again thank you Weyerbacher staff!) I ended up trading a bunch of it and no one seemed to enjoy it. I had three bottles left so I figured I might as well crack one open and holy shit was I not pleased with this beer. I love Weyerbacher, and in particular their barrel aged offerings but this was undrinkable. I ended up sharing some of it and drinking it all but bleh! I think there was some intense variation in the bottles because the sample I tried at the release were pretty good, I even commented to some people on line near me that it was pretty decent and we all agreed. Clearly Idiot's Drool was not a homerun but I give Weyerbacher credit for attempting to try and create an interesting brew and even more credit for releasing it!

 

At the risk of sounding stupid, I recently saw a bottle of Parabola for around $17 but I was hesitant to buy it. Was this a reasonable price? I had it for the first time, on draft, about a couple weeks ago.

 

I paid 20.99 and got 4 haha

 

Ten Fidy for $15 a four-pack. It's a good beer, but there are much better examples of the style for $9-10 a four-pack.

 

$22 for Oude tart, it was delicious

 

Wow, why so expensive?

 

It is usually $20-$25 when I can find it.

 

Way to much

 

The bruery. I feel like they are the most over priced and expensive beers on the market...

 

36 bottles of Eclipse for approximately $1200 once they are sent to my trustee and finally to me.

 

A lost abbey cork & coaster for 100 bucks.

 

You got off easy, compared to anyone who bought their Darkness from Surdyk's last year. As for the Odell Woodcut series, I have purchased at least 3 each of #3-#5, and will only say that #3 was worth it.

 

29$for a bottle of Chimay 150th Anniversary. In the cellar. Haven't tried it yet.

 

The first Cantillon Kriek I bought cost me about 60 USD

I wasn't too unhappy though, I was more amazed to see it in Africa!!!

 

We shared the bottle among 5 of us, but 90€ for a Cantillon Crianza Helena...

 

$12 for a 16 oz bottle of Budweiser @ Yankee Stadium.

 

It was the cheapest I could find it....through a personal transaction with someone in CA. It would have been nice if they had not jacked the price up but oh well, my fault for paying it. At least it wasn't as expensive as some assholes were selling them for on eBay - I saw a a few bottles over $200 each...crazy!

 

$15 for a 12oz Immort Ale (which I hated). Never saw it before and didn't see the price tag so I threw it on the counter and walked away to get more stuff as the clerk rang it up. Didn't realize until I got home 2 hours away that my wife didn't buy the extra bottle of wine I had thought she did to give the final high charge. I wish the clerk would have told me that someone took the other three bottles from the four-pack and I got stuck with the fourth that had the price tag affixed to the bottom.

 

Noticing DFH and Rogue keep popping up, and I totally agree. Their beers are great (for the most part), but I hate feeling like I took it in the financial caboose whenever I have them.