Haven't seen this posted yet, sorry if I missed it. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...78072187.59028.110627652322553&type=1&theater "Cantillon's family is growing!! Classic Gueuze blend for those Magnums (1.5 liter), Jeroboam (3 liters) and Mathusalem (6 liters). Bottles will age during years in our cellars."
Its a gimmick! See how they gave into the newest fad of wax dipping? Im kidding of course, if this was available to me I would buy more than I can afford.
I saw the empty bottles on a tour recently, I wondered what the deal was. Can't wait to see them trading for WALES.
.75L is $13 so a 6L would be around $100, that one bottle would be more than what local stores can even get... Classic Gueuze used for my example.
A chimay 750 is about 10-12ish, but the jerobams are over 70 just about everywhere I see them. There is a definite markup for these big bottles. They are better for aging, and are a great impressive piece for the cellar. I guess that is why people are willing to pay 2x per oz relative to the 750. My guess is that the 6L don't sell for less than 250-300
So this. How about just being able to ship more Cantillon into the US so we can drink it again? Please? Is that so much to ask Jean?
So nice to see news of a brewery going to larger bottles. I was afraid when I saw this thread that Cantillon was going to jump on the overpriced 12 oz 4-pack bandwagon.
Size when are 12-oz as a general rule over-priced compared to 22/25oz? Isn't it usually the other way around?
Typically you pay much more ounce for ounce for bombers than you do for 12 oz bottles. Six-packs often fall in the 12 dollar range, so you get about 72 ounces for 12 dollars, or about $0.16 per ounce. Bombers are often somewhere around 7 bucks and often much more than that. I know that FFF bombers go for $10-12, which would be about $0.54 per ounce. Methusalem usually go for over $200 (and I'm sure Cantillon's will cost more), and they contain around 202 ounces, so you're paying about a $1 per ounce, which is like buying a $22 bomber or a $12 12 oz bottle, it's not a good deal any way you slice it except for novelty.
Exactly! For a brewery that can't even come close to meeting demand, why make a novelty product? I mean, I guess it makes sense if you're just trying to turn a profit and make demand even higher for your product... But then that just leads to more people selling "limited" products on ebay, which is one of JvR's biggest annoyances.
As much as I find myself involuntarily drooling when looking at a picture of large-format, wax-dipped Cantillons, I'm definitely of the "if you can't even come close to meeting demand, what the hell do you think you're doing pouring cases and cases worth of Gueuze into a few overpriced novelty bottles?" camp. Magnums, sure - why not. Those can at least realistically get spread out a little bit, and I can definitely see the point in having some cellar-specific bottles produced. Once you get into Jeroboam territory, though, it starts to smell like a gimmick. I feel the same way about RR, Duvel, Chimay, Stone, whatever - but at least those beers aren't already ridiculously hard to find in normal sizes.
