What's the most expensive beer you've seen or drank?

[Weezy]

I remember that Sam Adams Triple Bock. It was like $150 a case, 20 years ago. I never saw it anywhere to be poured (and I wasn't spending $150 for the case).

The most I ever spent was $14 for St. Bernardas Christmas, 10oz draft. I also really like S. Smith's Yorkshire Stingo. They're $15/pint bottle. I'll pick one up once in a while.

(I've spent $48 for 2oz of scotch)

 

[CatHead]

About $10 for a bomber or around $15-20 for a four or six pack. While I understand people spending more for them I can't bring myself to spend more. But I am sure a lot of people think spending $10 for a bomber is outragous.

 

[bsawlsville]

Utopias. Damn that is yummy stuff.

 

[SoupNazi]

Dropped $20 on a Mikeller yesterday- Swmbo's valentine!

 

[E-Mursed]

Had a co-worker buy me a sixer of Simcoe Sillier and 4th Dementia from Kuhnhenns in Warren, MI.
Total cost - $52.00

I wanted 2 six packs of their DRIPA, the beer that won the World Beer Cup, but they didn't have it bottled for sale.

http://www.kbrewery.com/

 

[the_trout]

My first bottle of homebrew set me back about $350.

 

[michael_mus]

My first bottle of homebrew set me back about $350.

DING DING. This man wins the day.

 

[JiBiru8]

I came in to post a bottle of Westvleteren 8 that I bought for ¥2,200 (~US $23.50) but then remembered that my friends gave me a bottle of Utopias a few years ago. So Utopias!

 

[OhCrap]

DING DING. This man wins the day.

But was it worth the price.......?

 

[Darkness]

90 on a super Magnum of Epic Vertical from Stone

 

[ffaoe]

my most expensive buy was a $40 bottle of 3 Fonteinen Kriek

 

[craigkelker]

I know a guy that sold a Cognac aged bottle of Dark Lord for $202.50 on ebay. ;-)

 

[Billy-Klubb]

But was it worth the price.......?

$350 to start this wonderful obsession? more than worth it. worth twice, nay, thrice that!





hahahha!!! I said "nay" and "thrice". I must be smart. S-M-R-A-T, smert.

 

[jimmarshall]

DFH 120 or WOrldwide stout.....

 

[Qhrumphf]

That I've seen and know the price, The End of History. I don't know the Utopias price off hand, but I wanna say the End of History was several hundred a bottle.

That I've actually paid for, $50 for a 750 of Rodenbach Grand Cru that had been cellared for maybe 5 years. Runners up are $85 for a Westy 12 brick, $40 for a 750 of Cantillon, or ~$15 for a 10oz pour of various hard-to-come-bys (at least around here, Cantillon, Russian River sours, etc).

 

[cknittle]

2012 bourbon barrel aged old Rasputin @ 19$ for a 19oz bottle.

 

[MidTNJasonF]

Utopias from Sam Adams.

 

[octo]

I routinely pay $20 for 25.4 oz format bottles. seems to be the going price for most special releases I wont buy any beer that has a higher than 1$/oz price point, though I've had utopia.

 

[gstrawn]

Unibroue La Fin du Monde $12.00 a bottle, but some of the best beer I've ever tasted. Do so regularly in fact.

That's $7 here in Ga! My go to cheap Belgian. Very good

 

[tcw5028]

It's not really an exotic beer or hard to find beer but a $18 bottle of the Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale.

Very smokey with a sweet finish. Fortunately I love smokey flavors (my only hobby in front of brewing is BBQing) and it has bacon in it... I know smokey beer is an acquired taste but come on guys it has bacon in it haha.

 

[goirish04]

$75 for a 15 year old bottle of Westy 12. It is now 17 years old and still cellaring in my basement.

 

[jhoneycutt]

with the look on the wifes face after 7.00 a bottle for this years hopslam, I couldn't imagine paying the prices some of y'all have...

 

[oceans11_gt]

I also paid about $25 for a bottle of Founder's Bolt Cutter 15th Anniversary Barleywine. It was pretty delicious IMO. Although there was a lot of hype about it.

 

[reverendj1]

I also paid about $25 for a bottle of Founder's Bolt Cutter 15th Anniversary Barleywine. It was pretty delicious IMO. Although there was a lot of hype about it.

It was really sweet at first. We cracked open a bottle for New Year's Eve, and it was much better. I think this one needs some aging. I actually got to talk to Dave Engbers when our museum had a beer school. He said they tucked away several of them to re-release for their 25th anniversary.

 

[tikiwargod]

lots of hype around brew dog at the moment. i've had one of their offerings and it was pretty good, but very expensive for only a 4 pack. however, i always buy the big corked bottles when i purchase commercial beers so i'm used to paying out the arse for some of the finer things in life. have yet to try the sink the bismarck, but honestly, at that abv, i think i would rather have some jameson or a higher quality whiskey.

The beer is absolutely unbelievable, it's not about the alcohol content since it is thick and so complexly flavoured that you can't help but sip it very slowly and enjoy the taste. Some friends and I split a bottle at a bar once (160$ CAD total, so 40 each) which I admit is rather exuberant but the mouth feel was like molasses and it tasted of dried fruit (raisins, dates, figs) and toffee/caramel/molasses to round it off with a nice biscuity finish. It's neither too hopped or overly malty and honestly doesn't reveal its 41% but still has a nice subtle boozy taste. It is way more flavourful than any scotch I've had (my favourites being scapa 16, ardbeg, dalwhinie, macallan 12) and not even on the same level, if you feel like drinking a whiskey than drink whiskey (I personally recommend Tullamore Dew over Jameson's for Irish whiskey unless you're drinking the higher level Jameson's, price is similar but the few dollars more are IMO worth it) but I really don't feel you can lump the Bismark in with high ABV spirits since they are birds of completely different feathers.

To answer the thread, 160$ CAD for this is at the top followed by 120$ CAD for the Nuclear Tactical Penguin (which was unfortunately skunked and the bar wouldn't refund) and then the Westvletern 12 for 80$/six pack.

 

[cbar]

90 on a super Magnum of Epic Vertical from Stone

I was just in the liquor store last weekend and saw a 3L bottle of Vertical Epic 12.12.12. It was $105, so that's the most expensive bottle I can think of at the moment. Unfortunately, I didn't have a spare $100 on me at the time...

 

[OhCrap]

The beer is absolutely unbelievable, it's not about the alcohol content since it is thick and so complexly flavoured that you can't help but sip it very slowly and enjoy the taste. Some friends and I split a bottle at a bar once (160$ CAD total, so 40 each) which I admit is rather exuberant but the mouth feel was like molasses and it tasted of dried fruit (raisins, dates, figs) and toffee/caramel/molasses to round it off with a nice biscuity finish. It's neither too hopped or overly malty and honestly doesn't reveal its 41% but still has a nice subtle boozy taste. It is way more flavourful than any scotch I've had (my favourites being scapa 16, ardbeg, dalwhinie, macallan 12) and not even on the same level, if you feel like drinking a whiskey than drink whiskey (I personally recommend Tullamore Dew over Jameson's for Irish whiskey unless you're drinking the higher level Jameson's, price is similar but the few dollars more are IMO worth it) but I really don't feel you can lump the Bismark in with high ABV spirits since they are birds of completely different feathers.

To answer the thread, 160$ CAD for this is at the top followed by 120$ CAD for the Nuclear Tactical Penguin (which was unfortunately skunked and the bar wouldn't refund) and then the Westvletern 12 for 80$/six pack.

Jaysus lads the penguin seems very expensive over there, it costs me to stock €42 (about $50)

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Most expensive beer I've tasted? Utopias.

Most expensive beer purchase I've made? $85 brick of Westy. But that was split between myself and another guy.

Most expensive per-ounce beer I've bought at a store? $38 for a 750 of Angel's Share back in 2009.

 

[ldbf]

I was just in the liquor store last weekend and saw a 3L bottle of Vertical Epic 12.12.12. It was $105, so that's the most expensive bottle I can think of at the moment. Unfortunately, I didn't have a spare $100 on me at the time...

I have a 750 (or 22 oz, similar size and it's... over... there...) of it. Great beer, but not sure I'd pay $105 for it.

 

[ldbf]

*Even for 3L of it, I should say.

Perhaps coming of age in Boston messed me up, but I wasn't shocked to see a beer for $8 or $9 at a bar, so a bottle of Westy 12 in Brussels that set me back 10 euro was a bargain.

Most expensive? Prices here are so out of wack, but I paid a pretty penny for an older Cantillon.