I am asking a legitimate question. If 6 packs are a staggering $18 a piece that's still only less than $6 a bomber. How cheap does it have to be seriously?
Your sentence is to go on être gourmet and spend ~$180 on a bottle of Struise Five Squared so that you can feel the pain of true loss, the brackish spray of regret and excess. Only then will $18 sculpin provide solace to a threadbare heart.
Never seen a 6 pack here. If all breweries used your twisted logic then there would be no 6 packs under 15 dollars.
What is twisted about my logic? here I will set if forward as a setential proof: p1 - Sculpin costs $18 for 6 12oz cans p2 - Sculpin costs $3 for a 12oz can p3 - A bomber is 22 ounces p4 - 2 12oz cans is more than a single bomber p5 - distributing p2, two Sculpin cans cost $6 - - - c1 - using distributed middle, a bomber would cost less than $6.00 I have no problem with that price point given the quality of the product received. Whether you feel that Sculpin is worth $6 a bomber is a matter of personal preference which not even my twisted logic can sway. Before this gets into Stupac/Pahn territory, I am not making prescriptive statements of what breweries should charge, I am simply stating that at the $6 mark, I would happily pay that much given the comparable alternatives in that realm.
I've had bad luck with Sculpin over the last 18 months. I would put the ones I had on the level of something like Full Sail IPA, an ok, but seriously underwhelming beer.
I never once questioned the price of Sculpin. In fact, if you look at my previous posts in this very thread, you'll see that I was defending it.
It's twisted logic because that's not how a business works. It's not 6 dollars a bomber (here), it's 10-11. Most 12 oz. bottles cost around 1.60, in terms of normal 6 pack pricings of around 10 bucks. But if I choose to grab a bomber, I'm not refusing anything just because it's over 3 dollars. Do 3 dollars bombers even exist? If everything was priced by the ounce we would probably be paying 20+ bucks per 6 pack. Different serving types have different price points, and around 8 dollars is what I would consider to be the limit on a bomber for a single IPA. I hope cans bring the price down, and they should. I'd pay 12 bucks for 6 pack of cans from time to time, for sure.
if a 6 pack is $18, how does 22 ounces of beer become 10 or 11 dollars? a 6 pack of beer is 72 ounces, if you divide that by $18.00 you get Sculpin at $.25 cents an ounce, if there are 22 ounces in a bomber, that is a $5.50 purchase for 22 ounces at that price point. I dont even math that hard and this makes sense to me.
People who bitch about buying Ye Olde Sculpin really have no one to blame but themselves: "Ballast Point: Uses a best before date. Ex.: BE293/03302. BE = Big Eye, 293 = Batch, 03302 is the best before (Mar. 30, 2012). All of our ales and lagers under 10% ABV have an enjoy by date that is 120 days from the moment it touches our bottling line. Our ales and lagers that are over 10% ABV have an enjoy by date of 1 year." - via Fresh Beer Only database
Ya I dont think its a freshness issue, its the inconsistency in brewing. Ive had great bottles super fresh and not so great bottles super fresh.
Yep - yet people will continue to say "you gotta get it fresh bro" to people who can jog to the brewery.
You are missing the fact that a real bomber of Sculpin is $10-12 on the east coast, not $5.50. If it were that cheap people wouldn't have issues with Sculpin (except for it not being very good anymore). Break down the price of the bomber (for MA anyway) and a six pack costs ~$36. It wouldn't surprise me if the MA price will be around $24 for a sixer.
Careful there, say Evil Twin Three times and she'll appear in the mirror with an intent to sue letter!!
In a perfect world, beer would be priced by the ounce and all formats (bomber, 12oz 6pks, 750s) would be universal. At $0.25 an oz for Sculpin, your logic would work. Beer isn't priced that way, so unfortunately, your logic is twisted. Companies charge by the vessel, not the quantity.
you are correct, by way of example: http://www.shoppersvineyard.com/store/pc/STONE-RUINATION-IPA-22OZ-BOTTLE-180p14606.htm and http://www.hitimewine.net/STONE-RUINATION-DIPA-12OZ-4PK.html
Then stop buying it. I'm so tired of people continuously bringing up how Sculpin is a "shadow of its former self." Okay...then stop buying it. Case closed.
I just found it at a local grocer.... mismarked for $9.99 per six pack............ I bought all (6) six packs last week....... waiting for more to show up....... I didn't realize how expensive this stuff was...
Ballast Point is some of the most expensive stuff I see outside of imports and Evil Twin beers. I'm mostly talking about out of state stuff btw, but head to a good beer store in CA and you will find tons of bombers of great IPAs for ~$6. Compare that to our many closer to or greater than $10. The prices here aren't great, and you have to travel a little bit to realize how crappy the quality/cost ratio is in MA (there are a few exceptions like Jack's Abby).
Ballast Point just started distributing in South Florida where I live. I had my first Sculpin IPA at the craft beer bar near where I live, $7 on tap and I thought it tasted amazing. Then I checked to see if Total Wine had it and saw that they charge $14.99 per 6-pack (bottles). I think it's a great beer but doubt I will pay that for a six pack when I can get other great IPAs for less. For example, SN Celebration when it comes out for $13.99/12-pack, Jai Alai for $10.49/6-pack, Two Hearted for $9.99/6-pack, Stone IPA for $10.99/6-pack. Green Flash West Coast IPA is the same price per bottle, but more accessible at $9.99/4-pack. I just can't see myself paying $15 a sixer, but I will gladly pay $7 at the bar for a pint of it.
Dunno whether or not to be pumped about this. I've never really had it fresh enough to be impressed with it. All the bombers in my area are covered in dust.
Because the owners of Ballast peruse BA for advise on how to brew their beer? If people keep buying it they aren't going to change a damn thing.
I can almost guarantee that employees from various breweries check these forums for feedback. Sam Calgione has gone on rants because of threads that he read here.
