The Most You Have Paid For One Beer?

[david_42]

$150 for a case of VS IPA Brut, which works out to $7.50 a pint.

 

[MilwaukeeBrewGuy]

New Beligum's La Folie was not cheap and not worth it.

Beers that were worth the cash: 11-12ozers of Orval ($7-9), and The Beast, Mephistoples, and Samaels ($8 each)

I just bought a bottle of 2007 orval for 5 bucks. Actually, I can buy Orval all day at 5 dollars a bottle. I surely don't though....Man, I love Orval.

 

[Loweface]

€11 for a bottle of Fullers Vintage Ale which is about $15

Also €10 for a bottle of something German I can't pronounce let alone spell that claimed to be the strongest Lager in the world.

 

[olllllo]

~$15 to $20 usually for a 750 of lambic.

I spent $11 for a bomber of Fat Tire at the Fiesta Bowl.

SA Chocolate Bock went for 15. Gave that out as a Christmas gift

I think a 750 of Deus goes for about $35. I was going to crack it at New Years but I just forgot about it.

I bought a 1984 Chimay Blue at the Kulminator in Antwerp. I think that cost 25 or 30 bucks.

I need to have more 15-20 dollar beers in my life.

 

[IrregularPulse]

~$15 to $20 usually for a 750 of lambic.

I spent $11 for a bomber of Fat Tire at the Fiesta Bowl.

SA Chocolate Bock went for 15. Gave that out as a Christmas gift

I think a 750 of Deus goes for about $35. I was going to crack it at New Years but I just forgot about it.

I bought a 1984 Chimay Blue at the Kulminator in Antwerp. I think that cost 25 or 30 bucks.

I need to have more 15-20 dollar beers in my life.

1984 Chimay Blue? What is the ideal drinking age for that? And how does one know, besides experience, the ideal drinking age for a particular Beer?

I've bought the standard chimays, rocheforts and Orval, Delerium Nocturnum,Noel and a bottle of Tremens to be drank.. most expensive hmmm Can't remember. Have a bottle of Epic08 in the keezer sitting till 2012. That is my cellar. 1 bottle. Hope to add more.

 

[Evan!]

Wonder if Jester's Red will tell us what she payed for that ginormous bottle of Double Bastid?

I once bought one of those double mags of Oaked DB, I think I payed like $65 at wholesale (worked at the beer shop at the time), gave it as a wedding gift

 

[Brandon O]

I once bought one of those double mags of Oaked DB, I think I payed like $65 at wholesale (worked at the beer shop at the time), gave it as a wedding gift

Those things are sooooo freaking sweet. I want to buy one every time I go to the liquor store. They are over $100 retail tho.

 

[Evan!]

Those things are sooooo freaking sweet. I want to buy one every time I go to the liquor store. They are over $100 retail tho.

yeah, but they have a lock on the flip-top! :rockin:

 

[MNBugeater]

Bought a bottle of Utopias as a gift for a colleague. I think it was $125 ?

 

[olllllo]

1984 Chimay Blue? What is the ideal drinking age for that? And how does one know, besides experience, the ideal drinking age for a particular Beer?

I've bought the standard chimays, rocheforts and Orval, Delerium Nocturnum,Noel and a bottle of Tremens to be drank.. most expensive hmmm Can't remember. Have a bottle of Epic08 in the keezer sitting till 2012. That is my cellar. 1 bottle. Hope to add more.

I'm not an expert in this area, but my opinion is that most beers peak well before 5 years. It's of interest to drink beers of older vintage to note the changes- what still stands up, what flavors have faded or changed and what oxidation has done- more so than drinking such a beer at it's peak.

 

[neko]

Wonder if Jester's Red will tell us what she payed for that ginormous bottle of Double Bastid?

Saw a 3-liter bottle of Double Bastard a couple days ago for $85. Also, a 4-pack of 11oz Delerium Tremens for $22. Didn't buy either.

The most I've spent is only $10 for a 22oz of Deschutes Abyss.

 

[IrregularPulse]

I'm not an expert in this area, but my opinion is that most beers peak well before 5 years. It's of interest to drink beers of older vintage to note the changes- what still stands up, what flavors have faded or changed and what oxidation has done- more so than drinking such a beer at it's peak.

Thanks. I just don;t want to spend a bunch on a bottle someday and let it sit past prime essentially not getting the most out of my money.

Utopias would be a great gift! It's definitely one of those things you wouldn't normally buy for yourself, but would love to have. I hope to someday recieve the gift of rediculousness. I would be afraid to drink it.

 

[Zymurgrafi]

$15 for 2007 Old Crustacean XS (ceramic bottle), $18 for Cantillion.

I am tempted to buy the old crusty but I can never bring myself to. American barley wines are one of my favorite styles but I often wonder if I am paying for the ceramic bottle or a really great barley wine. Perhaps someday.

$13 is the most I have paid for a single bottleof beer, but it was a liter.

 

[Zymurgrafi]

Oh, and I recently saw the magnum of Double Bastard on sale for $72. Still can't afford it though.

 

[StoutFan]

4-Pack of Delirium Nocturnal-$25.50
Samiclaus-$11.50 per bottle

 

[superfluent]

$34 for a .33 litre bottle of Westvleteren Twaalf (12).

H

 

[GloHoppa]

I spent 15.99 plus dep each on 2 bottles of SA Chocolate Bock. I had one bottle that night and it was meh. I probably would have liked it had it retailed for 9 or 10 bucks but it wasn't anywhere near worth the price. I still have the other bottle sitting in my cellar waiting for a good reason to open it...

If I ever come across some Delerium Tremens, Omegeddon, Vertical Epic, or a few other select brews, price becomes NO object!

 

[gplutt]

17 Dollars for a bottle of Fantome Chocolat.

 

[Eastside Brewer]

I once bought one of those double mags of Oaked DB, I think I payed like $65 at wholesale (worked at the beer shop at the time), gave it as a wedding gift

+ 1 I bought one from my local beer store, cost me 65 bucks, SWMBO saw the reciept and now I have a flip top head and the lock is on my wallet!!! But damn the beer was good!!

Eastside

 

[trabus]

I paid $20 to "cover the cost of importing" a bottle of Westvleteren 12. The monks would not approve.

 

[Duckfoot]

Samiclaus-$11.50 per bottle

SHNIKEYS!!!!

I just got a four pack for $17....

 

[avaserfi]

$34 for a .33 litre bottle of Westvleteren Twaalf (12).

H

I paid $20 to "cover the cost of importing" a bottle of Westvleteren 12. The monks would not approve.

Was it worth it?

 

[StunnedMonkey]

An aside...whenever I see one of these high-priced singles (like say, SA Chocolate Bock) I'm always afraid to try it. It's not that I'm afraid that I won't like it, it's that I'm afraid I will like it. What's a worse budget-buster than acquiring a taste for $15 per bottle beer?

 

[Dloucks]

I'm going to pay 15 dollars for a Rouge IPA and their Barley Wine, but I want them for the bottles almost as for whats inside.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

$34 for a .33 litre bottle of Westvleteren Twaalf (12).

H

This is also my most expensive bottle, but I snagged it for $26. Totally worth it, just to know. I also got a bottle of 8, 10, and 12 for my wedding from one of my friends!

 

[MNBugeater]

I spent 15.99 plus dep each on 2 bottles of SA Chocolate Bock. ...

You had to pay a bottle deposit for a Sam Adams Chocolate Bock? This is on my sampling table for beer night tonight with some buddies. I picked up two bottles for $13/ea about a month ago at a Happy Harry's (liquor store chain in North Dakota) in Fargo. They had cases of this stuff with a big sign "$16.99" and it was slashed and they were marked down to $13, but no deposit on bottles required.

 

[Domminigan]

7 something for a Lambic last year.

 

[0202]

About $8 for a big bottle of Duvel perhaps.

I don't have enough money to spring on anything more than ~$6-8 per bottle.

I still can't bring myself to get the $16 6pack of Oaked Arrogant Bastard Ale

 

[bad coffee]

my most expensive single beer?

I paid $407.50.

$2.50 for the beer.
$25 for the 'public consumption' ticket,
$380 lost by taking the day off work to go to court for 5 minutes.



and it was a corona.

B

 

[cuinrearview]

The cost of the beer hasn't really bothered me lately. I look at it as research for what I want to try and clone. Recently I've had a $6.99 Founder's Breakfast Stout, an $8 Chocolate Indulgance, and a $6.50 Hopslam. I know I've spent more, but these ones are sticking in my mind at the moment because I wouldn't mind trying to make two of them. The $8 beer was the most disappointing.