Random Beer Thoughts

[reverseapachemaster1]

What the **** is with the price sensitivity on cans? People will buy $12-15 bombers of IPA or Brown ale but scoff at a $15 4 pack of 16oz cans. Bruh it's almost 3x the volume of beer.

The lingering mentality that the only beer that goes into cans is **** beer or river/lake/beach/watersports beer.

Same attitude existed for a long time about six packs that drove craft breweries to put beer in bombers. Eventually it will go away.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Which is a shame because all this homie wants is mead in beach friendly packaging, and most of the industry has recoiled in horror at the thought of someone playing slap the bag with their precious product. I just don't want to take glass to a beach.

 

[Stubs]

Which is a shame because all this homie wants is mead in beach friendly packaging, and most of the industry has recoiled in horror at the thought of someone playing slap the bag with their precious product. I just don't want to take glass to a beach.

There's some Redstone in cans I think?

 

[boogercrack]

Which is a shame because all this homie wants is mead in beach friendly packaging, and most of the industry has recoiled in horror at the thought of someone playing slap the bag with their precious product. I just don't want to take glass to a beach.

ISO Schramm's 375 ml skinny tall bottle koozie

 

[lazerviking]

Agree there is some weird reactions to the price of beer in cans. But what I find much more fascinating is the degree to which canning has increased the desirability of certain beers. If a brewer throws some turbid hoppy number in some janky cans, neckbeards come running.

 

[user 305778]

Agree there is some weird reactions to the price of beer in cans. But what I find much more fascinating is the degree to which canning has increased the desirability of certain beers. If a brewer throws some turbid hoppy number in some janky cans, neckbeards come running.

Some of this is merely because cans are easier to ship and turbid hoppy beers trade relatively well right now.

 

[seedavid]

Which is a shame because all this homie wants is mead in beach friendly packaging, and most of the industry has recoiled in horror at the thought of someone playing slap the bag with their precious product. I just don't want to take glass to a beach.

There's a meadery out of Baltimore, Charm City Meadworks, that cans a lot of their stuff. It isn't Schramm's, but some of it is pretty damn good.

 

[lazerviking]

Some of this is merely because cans are easier to ship and turbid hoppy beers trade relatively well right now.

Chicken and egg I think. To me it's totally irrational that people are trading hoppy cans given how quickly the beer degrades and how many great, local, hoppy beers there are. Like people swapping Tired Hands and Tree House cans? They taste pretty much the same and the shipping is probably only going to degrade each of them.

 

[beerindex]

Which is a shame because all this homie wants is mead in beach friendly packaging, and most of the industry has recoiled in horror at the thought of someone playing slap the bag with their precious product. I just don't want to take glass to a beach.

I can't speak to their quality, but I know of at least one meadery that cans: Leaky Roof in Missouri.

 

[FTowne1]

I can't speak to their quality, but I know of at least one meadery that cans: Leaky Roof in Missouri.

Hard pass.

 

[purephase]

What the **** is with the price sensitivity on cans? People will buy $12-15 bombers of IPA or Brown ale but scoff at a $15 4 pack of 16oz cans. Bruh it's almost 3x the volume of beer.

When Trillium started canning, a couple of guys on BA spent multiple pages passionately complaining about the prices and when confronted with the fact that it actually lowered the price per ounce of the beer suggested that price per format was a more important metric.

 

[boogercrack]

When Trillium started canning, a couple of guys on BA spent multiple pages passionately complaining about the prices and when confronted with the fact that it actually lowered the price per ounce of the beer suggested that price per format was a more important metric.

 

[user 305778]

Chicken and egg I think. To me it's totally irrational that people are trading hoppy cans given how quickly the beer degrades and how many great, local, hoppy beers there are. Like people swapping Tired Hands and Tree House cans? They taste pretty much the same and the shipping is probably only going to degrade each of them.

I'm not sure I follow the chicken and egg portion. I agree with everything else, but from what I've seen the market has gone: Turbid, juice-like beers got popular -> Trading increased -> beers like that started getting canned -> trading increased more -> other breweries see the format is popular -> neckbeards go wild.

 

[boogercrack]

Man. Seeing people talking about going into Iowa for KBBS/Assassin release from parts of the country where it never snows... IF it does that day I hope they're all taking ubers around. In a rental car they're not used to, in conditions they're not used to, after attending an event that is centered around strong beers that will likely have shares/other pours.....

Seems like a recipe for problems.

 

[drgarage1]

What the **** is with the price sensitivity on cans? People will buy $12-15 bombers of IPA or Brown ale but scoff at a $15 4 pack of 16oz cans. Bruh it's almost 3x the volume of beer.

Sorry, who is buying $15 bombers of brown ale?

 

[steimie]

What the **** is with the price sensitivity on cans? People will buy $12-15 bombers of IPA or Brown ale but scoff at a $15 4 pack of 16oz cans. Bruh it's almost 3x the volume of beer.

People aren't smart.

We just had an election that proved this.

 

[Sam Fu]

The worst is when people bitched about the price of BA Ten Fidy cans. People couldn't visualize the actual number of ounces in the Stovepipes and didn't wrap their head around how it's only ~3 ounces less than a 22oz.

"$12.50-$14 a can?!? Holy **** that's so expensive!"

Yet you'll pay $15+ for a bomber of Mexican Cake/Sexual Chocolate/etc


**** people

 

[beerandraiderfan]

Has anyone made a beer named FOEDRE EMELIANENKO yet?

"Going downhill"
"Not as good as it used to be"
"Over rated"

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Sorry, who is buying $15 bombers of brown ale?

$12 + tax

 

[stupac2]

People don't tend to calculate unit costs for anything, so not doing it for beer isn't surprising.

Personally, I've become a lot more cost-conscious, and when these cans are coming in at $4+ per pint I have a hard time justifying them when compared to the keg at home for ~$1.50. There's some novelty factor, sure, but are they really that much better? And does it matter if you're just pounding the fourpack while you watch football all Sunday?

 

[Stubs]

People don't tend to calculate unit costs for anything, so not doing it for beer isn't surprising.

Personally, I've become a lot more cost-conscious, and when these cans are coming in at $4+ per pint I have a hard time justifying them when compared to the keg at home for ~$1.50. There's some novelty factor, sure, but are they really that much better? And does it matter if you're just pounding the fourpack while you watch football all Sunday?

I work in retail. Regarding unit price, People don't think this way very often.

They think more in terms of "I'll spend x amount of $ on a certain item."

The process is more like "I'm not spending over 10 bucks on beer for tonight. "

 

[FTowne1]

And does it matter if you're just pounding the fourpack while you watch football all Sunday?

That's what High Life is for.

 

[stupac2]

I work in retail. Regarding unit price, People don't think this way very often.

They think more in terms of "I'll spend x amount of $ on a certain item."

The process is more like "I'm not spending over 10 bucks on beer for tonight. "

That makes sense if it's something you have to consume in one sitting, like a growler, but for cans you should at least think about per container. They're still often pretty bad, around here $4-6 per can is the standard rate for the fancier ones, and at that price I'm just going to grab a sixer of Celebration. Most of the time, at least.

That's what High Life is for.

My freshman year one of my roommates had his brother's ID (they looked damn near identical) and was looking for deals on beer, and it turned out that a local drug store had a sale AND a coupon for high life that, when combined, which they probably weren't supposed to be, dropped them down to $3 per case. We went at like 10PM when the employees wouldn't give a **** and bought them out. We had so many that we made a throne out of the cases, and I'm pissed that I can't find any pictures of this any more.

Anyway my point is that after a long time of drinking essentially nothing but High Life, including multiple nights of finishing a case solo, I'm done with that beer.

(Plus that's actually what the kegerator is for.)

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Celebration and other big crafts are lumped into my grocery bill so I don't even think about them as beer purchases.

That's what High Life is for.

Just bought High Life and Modelo fence post for an upcoming brewday.

 

[beerandraiderfan]

Dark rye saisons with licorice can go **** themselves. Unless the EC12 barrel covers that **** up, then it'll be good.

 

[JulianB1]

Dark rye saisons with licorice can go **** themselves. Unless the EC12 barrel covers that **** up, then it'll be good.

Sounds like putting lipstick on a pig to me.

 

[boogercrack]

Sounds like putting lipstick on a pig to me.

Welcome to Craft Beer in 2016!

 

[Nivek43]

Man. Seeing people talking about going into Iowa for KBBS/Assassin release from parts of the country where it never snows... IF it does that day I hope they're all taking ubers around. In a rental car they're not used to, in conditions they're not used to, after attending an event that is centered around strong beers that will likely have shares/other pours.....

Seems like a recipe for problems.

There isn't even Uber/Lyft in Decorah. There is a really small taxi service, but I wouldn't count on that with such a large influx of people to a small town. Also, pretty much all of the hotels are way on the outskirts of town, not even close to the brewery/downtown. Should be some interesting stories coming from Iowa that day.

 

[trickytunadicky]

There's some Redstone in cans I think?

There's a meadery out of Baltimore, Charm City Meadworks, that cans a lot of their stuff. It isn't Schramm's, but some of it is pretty damn good.

I can't speak to their quality, but I know of at least one meadery that cans: Leaky Roof in Missouri.

Leaky Roof is better than either Redstone (except the reserves) or Charm Ciry. Srs. And $2 a can. I am thinking The Colony in Pennsylvania is the best canned mead, but have not evaluated their canned offerings.

 

[drgarage1]

$12 + tax

People drink AtG?