What is it?
Hype.
Believe it. At $60 a bottle, AB InBev is making all they can. They aren't limiting production at all. I will probably end up trying it at a share hut I'm not dropping my $60 for a single 500ml bottle. While I don't believe it's all hype, I also don't think it's worth the price tag.
Says the guy with the westy profile pic....
Not that I'm saying you are wrong about rare
Wait, what??? These are $60 a bottle?
Oh well, guess I'll never be trying this beer, ever. My little bottle shop is opening up at 3PM on Black Friday with some of these available, I thought I was going to pick a couple up for $20 or less. While that's as high as giraffe horns, I was gonna do it.
$60 is higher than Doug Benson. Nope.
That 60.00 was for the BCBS Rare. Standard Bourbon County and even some of the variants wont go nearly close to that amount, even for the 'larger' bottles then years previous. Last year per bottle cost for Philly was around 10.00 for the standard, 26.50 for the bomber (32.00 some places from what I hear). If you planned on making it to an event on black Friday for the standard stuff, its well worth the cost, IMO
Says the guy with the westy profile pic....
Not that I'm saying you are wrong about rare
If you get Westy at the source, though, it's probably $60 for about 2 cases. I think it comes packaged in wood as well.
While you are correct that it is overpriced...
I am not really feeling cheated.
My point is that westy is one of the most hyped beers in the world and you can buy other trappists much more easily and cheaply that are pretty close to the same beer(s).I love Westvleteren 12. I have many more cases than that. I don't trade it away that much either. The stuff keeps getting better.
My point is that westy is one of the most hyped beers in the world and you can buy other trappists much more easily and cheaply that are pretty close to the same beer(s).
I'm not lining up for rare, paying the price, nor really caring about what GI does at this point. I just find it a bit hypocritical for someone who has bought into the hype of another beer so fully to pass judgment on others doing the same thing.
I love Westvleteren 12. I have many more cases than that. I don't trade it away that much either. The stuff keeps getting better. Everything I've heard about Rare this time around is that it is just meh. That it's not better than the last batch, which I was lucky to have. This batch is 100s of times bigger, and way more money than the last time. Which is sad, because the bottle was bigger last time.
This is what happens when a giant multi-national company buys up craft beers. They are fleecing people for all that they can. It actually might be a social experiment they are running.
If there was a sheep smily I'd use it for the folks buying up what Budweiser is throwing down, but
The first batch of Rare was something like 11-14k 22oz bottles and $45-55. So it is quite a bit higher priced than 2010, but I doubt this one has over a million bottles.
But you got a six pack of beer for $360! Yes that is overpriced, by a mile for 500mL bottles. But you agree with the overpriced, but don't feel cheated? If I feel something is overpriced I don't go and buy it. That would make me feel like I was cheated. These two statements seem contradictory to me.
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