Craft Draft Pricing

I'd rather get everything in 1oz tasters, just enough to review it and move on.

 

I don't care if the size of the pours differs, as long as it's listed on the draft menu. I don't care if the price is different either as long as it's listed on the draft menu. Give me the information and I'll choose for myself if the beer/price/pour is worth purchasing. (Maybe you need a third option for different prices and different pours.)

 

sometimes I don't want an $8, 16 oz pour of DIPA, and other times I don't want a $5 12/16 oz pour of, say, weihenstephaner, gimme the big glass!

I prefer when all of the beers are similar in price overall

I like when they base it on alcohol, though some bars are puzzling, i.e. Allagash white 12 oz pour on draft the other night? strange

 

Different sized, same priced, no doubt. There's a bar by my house that sells most everything in shaker pints. I nabbed a Reds Rye for 5$. Since my girlfriend doesn't like beer that much, I ordered her a Lindeman's Framboise, figured she'd be into it. It also came in a pint glass... 10.75$ !! What the hell, man!

 

I'd much rather pay a little more and get a full sized pour. I drink mostly big beers and I understand they cost more. If an establishment is pouring 10oz to keep the price down, thanks but at least offer a full pint for more money. If the establishment is pouring 10oz because it's "high gravity", effing stop!! That pisses me off that so many placces try to nanny us by restricting how much "imperial" beer they serve in a glass.

 

hell I would pay a premium just to get the beer in the correct glass for the style. If a bar markets themselves as a gastro pub or a craft bar, they should have more than wine glasses and pint glasses. I would take the wine glass option, but some snifters never hurt anyone right?

 

One of my favorite beer bars is The Playground in Santa Ana. Every beer is a different size ranging from 4 to 16oz and they're all the same price. $5 for Firestone barrel aged beers or similar brews has been heavenly, considering similar pours are sometimes double the price at other bars in the area

 

crap I totally forgot about the Playground. Doesn't hurt that they have some great friends in the culinary and craft beer industries! Such a prime spot!

 

I like to see the $/ABV to remain constant.

If a 12oz 5% macro is $5, then I'm cool with a 12oz 10% craft being $10 or an 8oz 10% at $6.67.

 

Blech. I'd rather see absolute profit per pour remain the same.

This: Price = Cost + Margin

Not this: Price = Cost * Margin

Apologies for sloppy use of accounting terms.

 

This is the correct answer

 

As long as it's clearly indicated on the menu I really don't mind either way.
My favorite bar in Oklahoma City is Saint's. Everything is in shaker pints other than Crispin when they have it
& poured via a nitro system. Sure, it takes longer to get yer beer, but it's worth it to get a full pour of everything.
They have the Irish Pub mainstays (Guiness/Harp/Smithwick's) as well as (usually) a rotating Cider tap, w/ the rest being locals.

 

As long as the price and size is displayed, I'm happy.

 

Correct serving size based on style and ABV, appropriate price. All 16oz pour beers available in 8oz pours.

 

You're missing the most common way to do it - different sizes at different prices.

 

I'm in the "as long as it's marked on the menu\board it's cool" camp. That being said, there are definitely styles that I glassware\pour size matters more on. I wouldn't want the previously mentioned pint of Framboise.
A place by me has a great set up where you can get a small or a large, usually $3-4 or $6-7 respectively. They use style appropriate glassware as well. It's a nice option to have.

 

As someone that runs a bar I will explain what I do.....
1st your margins are not the same for every beer. Cost = price of keg / # of ounces in keg this gives you cost per ounce and then multiply by the size of the glass to get cost per glass. ex. $160 for a 1/2bbl of Bells 2 hearted is $1.29 for a pint glass. $150 for a 1/6bbl of DFH Palo Santo is $3.40 for a pint glass. But here is where alcohol is involved, you don't want to serve Palo in a pint glass at 12%. One, it's irresponsible as a bar owner, and two, your guests won't drink as many. So we serve Palo in 10oz pilsners at a cost of $2.27 to us. So I sell 2 hearted at $4.50 a pint and Palo at $6.50 a 10oz. That translates to a margin of 71% for Bells and 65% for DFH. So you can't sell beer based on margins alone or you'd be selling some beers at a ridiculous price. I have to look at the $$$$ per ring that I generate in order to price beer. Yes I am making $4.23 on the Palo vs. $3.21 on the Bells, but it sits longer than the Bells because you can't drink a lot of it. And back to alcohol, wine is served in 6oz pours at 11-13%abv, so getting 10oz of Palo is a good deal! But this is all on craft beer, move over to Miller Lite and your margins are less because you sell it for less, mine is 60%! Lastly if I get a special keg in, ie KBS, I will sell it for more just because it is a once a year beer and very few kegs come into the state. Capitalism baby!

 

Why does it matter how long it sits for, so long as it doesn't "go bad"? You've already factored your cost and the ABV into the equation, so there's no real reason why you should make $1 more profit on the Palo. Putting aside the entire capitalism argument for a minute, it sounds like the 10oz pour of Palo should be going for $5.50.

 

I have a craft beer bar/wine bar across the street from work I go to maybe twice a week. Prices and pours vary slightly. They usually give me a 16oz pour for the price of 12 as well as some other regulars.

Just had a $4 16oz pour FBS