The Beer Thread

I guess I'm the only one with a less than stellar review of Three Stars. Maybe because it was crowded and uncomfortable with two kids in tow (one ours, one a friend with his kid), whereas we've always had seats at DC Brau. The beers were pretty good, but not worth the high growler prices they were charging.

Anybody been to Atlas or Right Proper yet?

James wrote:
I guess I'm the only one with a less than stellar review of Three Stars. Maybe because it was crowded and uncomfortable with two kids in tow (one ours, one a friend with his kid), whereas we've always had seats at DC Brau. The beers were pretty good, but not worth the high growler prices they were charging.

Anybody been to Atlas or Right Proper yet?

What do you consider high prices for a growler? I don't buy them enough to know, but $16 for 64 oz of a high ABV tasty beverage seems fair to me.

I guess I'm comparing prices to four or six packs. I can get 48 ozs of DirtWolf for 8 bucks or 72 ozs of the Truth for $10. And I don't have to drive an hour and already own a growler to get it.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
I guess I'm the only one with a less than stellar review of Three Stars. Maybe because it was crowded and uncomfortable with two kids in tow (one ours, one a friend with his kid), whereas we've always had seats at DC Brau. The beers were pretty good, but not worth the high growler prices they were charging.

Anybody been to Atlas or Right Proper yet?

What do you consider high prices for a growler? I don't buy them enough to know, but $16 for 64 oz of a high ABV tasty beverage seems fair to me.

Went to a holiday get together for work at a local American Tap Room last night.  Mostly a waste of taps-till I discovered the unadvertised Lagunitas Brown Shugga!  Yummy!
Wondered why I was moving a little slow today, until  I realized it was 10%…

Yes, excellent beer!


And at $10 for a six pack, a much better deal than a $16 growler of 3 Stars.

Bagley wrote:
Went to a holiday get together for work at a local American Tap Room last night.   Mostly a waste of taps-till I discovered the unadvertised Lagunitas Brown Shugga!  Yummy!
Wondered why I was moving a little slow today, until  I realized it was 10%…

James wrote:
Yes, excellent beer!


And at $10 for a six pack, a much better deal than a $16 growler of 3 Stars.

Bagley wrote:
Went to a holiday get together for work at a local American Tap Room last night.   Mostly a waste of taps-till I discovered the unadvertised Lagunitas Brown Shugga!  Yummy!
Wondered why I was moving a little slow today, until  I realized it was 10%…

I take it you're the kinda guy that will drive an hour to save $2?

Nope, I wouldn't. Thankfully I live within walking distance of a Whole Foods and within 10 miles of three different Total Wines and two Trader Joes (maybe more). I choose to live where they don't have retardedly high prices.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Yes, excellent beer!


And at $10 for a six pack, a much better deal than a $16 growler of 3 Stars.

Bagley wrote:
Went to a holiday get together for work at a local American Tap Room last night.   Mostly a waste of taps-till I discovered the unadvertised Lagunitas Brown Shugga!  Yummy!
Wondered why I was moving a little slow today, until  I realized it was 10%…

I take it you're the kinda guy that will drive an hour to save $2?

James wrote:
Nope, I wouldn't. Thankfully I live within walking distance of a Whole Foods and within 10 miles of three different Total Wines and two Trader Joes (maybe more). I choose to live where they don't have retardedly high prices.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Yes, excellent beer!


And at $10 for a six pack, a much better deal than a $16 growler of 3 Stars.

Bagley wrote:
Went to a holiday get together for work at a local American Tap Room last night.   Mostly a waste of taps-till I discovered the unadvertised Lagunitas Brown Shugga!  Yummy!
Wondered why I was moving a little slow today, until  I realized it was 10%…

I take it you're the kinda guy that will drive an hour to save $2?

It must be hard to choose between all of the good breweries in VA.

Hard to choose what? Not sure what you're getting at. You're losing me.

But if you're trying to slag VA breweries, I'll just say that Alewerks makes as good a beer (Bitter Valentine) as any beer brewed in DC or MD. And fwiw, Devil's Backbone (VA)  won more medals at GABF than all DC and MD breweries combined. Not to forget Hardywood (VA), whose Gingerbread Stout recently bagged me a couple of amazing beer trades.  ;D

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Nope, I wouldn't. Thankfully I live within walking distance of a Whole Foods and within 10 miles of three different Total Wines and two Trader Joes (maybe more). I choose to live where they don't have retardedly high prices.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Yes, excellent beer!


And at $10 for a six pack, a much better deal than a $16 growler of 3 Stars.

Bagley wrote:
Went to a holiday get together for work at a local American Tap Room last night.   Mostly a waste of taps-till I discovered the unadvertised Lagunitas Brown Shugga!  Yummy!
Wondered why I was moving a little slow today, until  I realized it was 10%…

I take it you're the kinda guy that will drive an hour to save $2?

It must be hard to choose between all of the good breweries in VA.

James wrote:
Hard to choose what? Not sure what you're getting at. You're losing me.

But if you're trying to slag VA breweries, I'll just say that Alewerks makes as good a beer (Bitter Valentine) as any beer brewed in DC or MD. And fwiw, Devil's Backbone (VA)  won more medals at GABF than all DC and MD breweries combined. Not to forget Hardywood (VA), whose Gingerbread Stout recently bagged me a couple of amazing beer trades.  ;D

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Nope, I wouldn't. Thankfully I live within walking distance of a Whole Foods and within 10 miles of three different Total Wines and two Trader Joes (maybe more). I choose to live where they don't have retardedly high prices.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Yes, excellent beer!


And at $10 for a six pack, a much better deal than a $16 growler of 3 Stars.

Bagley wrote:
Went to a holiday get together for work at a local American Tap Room last night.   Mostly a waste of taps-till I discovered the unadvertised Lagunitas Brown Shugga!  Yummy!
Wondered why I was moving a little slow today, until  I realized it was 10%…

I take it you're the kinda guy that will drive an hour to save $2?

It must be hard to choose between all of the good breweries in VA.

Your post comparing a $10 six pack to Three Stars made about as much sense. 

I thought you wanted to know my opinion on the price of a 64 oz $16 growler of high abv, high quality beer.

I thought that sounded high since I can get 72 ozs of high quality high abv beer for $10 in bottles. And for me, at a much more convenient location.

How does that not make sense?

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Hard to choose what? Not sure what you're getting at. You're losing me.

But if you're trying to slag VA breweries, I'll just say that Alewerks makes as good a beer (Bitter Valentine) as any beer brewed in DC or MD. And fwiw, Devil's Backbone (VA)  won more medals at GABF than all DC and MD breweries combined. Not to forget Hardywood (VA), whose Gingerbread Stout recently bagged me a couple of amazing beer trades.  ;D

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Nope, I wouldn't. Thankfully I live within walking distance of a Whole Foods and within 10 miles of three different Total Wines and two Trader Joes (maybe more). I choose to live where they don't have retardedly high prices.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Yes, excellent beer!


And at $10 for a six pack, a much better deal than a $16 growler of 3 Stars.

Bagley wrote:
Went to a holiday get together for work at a local American Tap Room last night.   Mostly a waste of taps-till I discovered the unadvertised Lagunitas Brown Shugga!  Yummy!
Wondered why I was moving a little slow today, until  I realized it was 10%…

I take it you're the kinda guy that will drive an hour to save $2?

It must be hard to choose between all of the good breweries in VA.

Your post comparing a $10 six pack to Three Stars made about as much sense. 

James wrote:
I thought you wanted to know my opinion on the price of a 64 oz $16 growler of high abv, high quality beer.

I thought that sounded high since I can get 72 ozs of high quality high abv beer for $10 in bottles. And for me, at a much more convenient location.

How does that not make sense?

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Hard to choose what? Not sure what you're getting at. You're losing me.

But if you're trying to slag VA breweries, I'll just say that Alewerks makes as good a beer (Bitter Valentine) as any beer brewed in DC or MD. And fwiw, Devil's Backbone (VA)  won more medals at GABF than all DC and MD breweries combined. Not to forget Hardywood (VA), whose Gingerbread Stout recently bagged me a couple of amazing beer trades.  ;D

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Nope, I wouldn't. Thankfully I live within walking distance of a Whole Foods and within 10 miles of three different Total Wines and two Trader Joes (maybe more). I choose to live where they don't have retardedly high prices.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
Yes, excellent beer!


And at $10 for a six pack, a much better deal than a $16 growler of 3 Stars.

Bagley wrote:
Went to a holiday get together for work at a local American Tap Room last night.   Mostly a waste of taps-till I discovered the unadvertised Lagunitas Brown Shugga!  Yummy!
Wondered why I was moving a little slow today, until  I realized it was 10%…

I take it you're the kinda guy that will drive an hour to save $2?

It must be hard to choose between all of the good breweries in VA.

Your post comparing a $10 six pack to Three Stars made about as much sense. 

You still haven't answered my question about what's the a fair price for a growler fresh from a brewery?

Six packs/Four pack prices = / = growler prices. So I guess I'll rephrase it… Assuming you buy growlers at Whole Foods in a 10 minute radius to your home, what is a fair price?

I generally only buy growlers of stuff that isn't sold in bottles. Unless the growler price is excellent and I can't find a bottle of it. For example, Founders Sweet Repute sold for about $19 for a 26 oz bottle, I got it on draft at $14 for 32 oz.


And I generally limit myself to 32 oz growler fills since the product starts to degrade the minute you open it. Even 32 ozs is a stretch on the high abv beers.

Bottom line, if I can get it in a bottle, that's what I'm choosing. If I can't, the price has to be pretty sweet. What is pretty sweet? I know it when I see it. $16 for a Three Stars beer isn't sweet (in part because anything after 32 oz, the value declines for me).

James wrote:
I generally only buy growlers of stuff that isn't sold in bottles. Unless the growler price is excellent and I can't find a bottle of it. For example, Founders Sweet Repute sold for about $19 for a 26 oz bottle, I got it on draft at $14 for 32 oz.


And I generally limit myself to 32 oz growler fills since the product starts to degrade the minute you open it. Even 32 ozs is a stretch on the high abv beers.

Bottom line, if I can get it in a bottle, that's what I'm choosing. If I can't, the price has to be pretty sweet. What is pretty sweet? I know it when I see it. $16 for a Three Stars beer isn't sweet (in part because anything after 32 oz, the value declines for me).

According to Jimmy Fordish logic though, a 32oz growler of Three Stars would actually be a great deal!

:o :o :o :o

Well, not really. But if you're happy with your purchase, that's the only logic that really matters.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
I generally only buy growlers of stuff that isn't sold in bottles. Unless the growler price is excellent and I can't find a bottle of it. For example, Founders Sweet Repute sold for about $19 for a 26 oz bottle, I got it on draft at $14 for 32 oz.


And I generally limit myself to 32 oz growler fills since the product starts to degrade the minute you open it. Even 32 ozs is a stretch on the high abv beers.

Bottom line, if I can get it in a bottle, that's what I'm choosing. If I can't, the price has to be pretty sweet. What is pretty sweet? I know it when I see it. $16 for a Three Stars beer isn't sweet (in part because anything after 32 oz, the value declines for me).

According to Jimmy Fordish logic though, a 32oz growler of Three Stars would actually be a great deal!

:o :o :o :o

James wrote:
Well, not really. But if you're happy with your purchase, that's the only logic that really matters.

Yada wrote:

James wrote:
I generally only buy growlers of stuff that isn't sold in bottles. Unless the growler price is excellent and I can't find a bottle of it. For example, Founders Sweet Repute sold for about $19 for a 26 oz bottle, I got it on draft at $14 for 32 oz.


And I generally limit myself to 32 oz growler fills since the product starts to degrade the minute you open it. Even 32 ozs is a stretch on the high abv beers.

Bottom line, if I can get it in a bottle, that's what I'm choosing. If I can't, the price has to be pretty sweet. What is pretty sweet? I know it when I see it. $16 for a Three Stars beer isn't sweet (in part because anything after 32 oz, the value declines for me).

According to Jimmy Fordish logic though, a 32oz growler of Three Stars would actually be a great deal!

:o :o :o :o

I didn't buy one.

I was just shopping at Whole Foods and voila…there was Lagunitas Sucks. $10.99/ six pack (will probablt be a dollar less at TW). At half the price of Hopslam, I'll be drinking the hell out of this (unless I score some Zombie Dust when I'm at Three Floyds next week) the next couple of months. They keep threatening to make it a 32 oz year round bottle, but you can't beat the budget six pack format.

must not . . . give in.  had lunch at a quaint little cafe today, in a neat town called woodstock, va, that sells finer things and sells beer.  they had sucks and st bernardus christmas ale.  ughhh.

why did you quit drinking beer?