Um, is this for real! “Give me the cheapest, crappiest beer.” Are there actually people out there saying this?
I read that yesterday, but I decided not to share. The headline is click bait for a shallow argument.
Only thing I will agree with is that beers are too expensive. It’s not just craft beer, the “crafty” brands sell for about the same premium. I’m tired of $6-7 pints personally. Worse is when a bar doesn’t list that a beer is a small pour. Pints are standard, beers sold smaller need to be listed.
She does make some valid points in her article, but it is simply an opinion piece. I will happily chip in on the postage if someone wants to box up some sobriety for her 
She is an Australian, and beer -any beer- is very expensive there. Maybe she just wants a buzz?
I thought the author made a good point but forgot what it was because by the end of the article I was too preoccupied applying mustache wax and fussing over a pumpkin peach ale.
I got about three paragraphs in and gave up. Just sounded like too much wining about something she wasn’t interested in (craft beer) and something she didn’t want to change (pub culture.)
I agree that the hipster-craft beer scene can get a little annoying, but I do think it will all balance out eventually and in a lot of ways already is. More and more “Joe Sixpacks” are converting over to craft beer. I see them all the time.
I’ve never been to Australia but in American, where we have had more of a night club scene than a pub scene I think that craft beer is actually creating a pub scene where there really wasn’t one before.
As far as 5-6 dollar pints go, I agree it feels excessive. But until brewers are driving BMWs I don’t see that changing any time soon.
Come to my taproom. 0.5 liter is $4 and that include a sales tax. Still too expensive?
That’s awesome. I agree that some of the craft brew nerds have gone off the deep end with the pretensiousness. But good beer trumps rice beer any day, and she can drink whatever suits her.
cheap gin?
And as long as the 5-6 dollar pints keep selling.
Pints of Sculpin are $9 at my neighborhood bar.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I am reminded of a line from Jethro Tull’s “Thick As a Brick”:
“I judge you all and make damn sure no one judges me.”
If I can find a good pint for $5, I’m a happy man.
$4 is even better, but quite rare unless it’s a special.
If you want a cheap buzz go buy a handle of Wolfschmidt and some Gatorade. The hangover is free.
Any thread with a JT quote is OK with me!
That’s like saying “as long as gas keeps selling for $4 a gallon”. And for the record, we sell mostly 4-5 dollar pints at YHB. But you have to be really careful not to undercut your retailers by too much or they get pissed and don’t sell your beer. It’s a very delicate balance.
That, is ridiculous.
In my area, chain restaurants are more than guilty of selling craft beer at absurd prices. (Wife recently paid $7.50 for a bottle of Dogfish 60 minute. >:( )
The mom and pop restaurants seem to be much better, usually in the $4-$5ish range, depending on the beer… The local brewpub also sells their beer for about that much.
Moral of the story: We don’t eat at chains when we can help it.
+1. A great beer, but damn.
Yesterday. after several hours of ice fishing, I went to the bar for lunch and had a Reuben sandwich with fries, washed down with three pints of PBR. The bill was $17.50. I was happy.