While there is merit to what you say here,
Gene, the logic in the initial quoted post, at least at some level, does a disservice to economies of scale and ignores the different input costs for different breweries, etc, as is stated by
mvl339 here. Not that this tells the whole story, just a contention point.
Weight vs nickle and diming in the skreets.
I agree there is some insanity baked into current beer prices, especially thinking it is all brewers passing along costs and not clearing a sizable margin of profit per unit.
There are so many factors to this economics/psychology/market tolerance conversation that most of our opinions probably leave out a lot.
*this post was lightly ninja edited