Posts Tagged: Inputs, Price and Value
Are You An Utter Fool? Well, Do I Have A Beer For You!
Posted by on Friday, January 25, 2008 in - 7 comments
The blithering idiot sector of the snob class of beer git has now been confirmed as a market to which one can...market: • “Carlsberg A/S ads say it's "probably the best beer in the world." At $400 a bottle, it's now the most expensive. The brewer, Scandinavia's biggest, introduced a beer today …
Inputs, Price and Value: Beer Labels
Posted by on Monday, January 21, 2008 in - 3 comments
Three red triangles, two of which are on Bass labels • In a discussion last month over at the Beer Advocate on pricing and the inputs that go into setting them, in response to my comments about packaging costs, Lew Bryson commented • “I'm not against learning more about what's in a beer, how …
Cost Inputs: Do We Buy The Import Or Lobby Our Local Brewer?
Posted by on Thursday, January 10, 2008 in - 2 comments
Is this how it works? • “Shelton has brought in some bottles, but he wants to start importing fresh casks at regular intervals. He realizes they will be a tough sell. "When American beer drinkers spend more money on a beer," he says, "they want more alcohol. It's a real challenge to sell …
Cost Inputs: Is Brewing Under License A Con?
Posted by on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 in - 11 comments
We've talked a bit about brewing under license. A year and a half ago we undertook the historic PBR v. PBR challenge under which the US brew was tested against the version brewed in Canada under license by Sleeman - it was a draw. In 2004, I even make a submission in the face of a pending beer …
One Step Towards Both Eco-Friendly Brewing And Good Value
Posted by on Thursday, December 20, 2007 in - 2 comments
More on the decisions that go into making your beer tonight as I noticed this story just now about a brewery that is simply not playing up its wonderfully eco-friendly ways on its own website, Barrington Brewery of Great Barrington, Massachusetts: • “"The first thing that we looked at as far as …
Craft Or Kraphtt: Sam Adams Scotch Ale, Boston Beer, MA, USA
Posted by on Monday, December 10, 2007 in - 3 comments
Stan was rightly giving me grief the other day or at least a lesson in life when I spoke of the Sam Adams line of beers. I didn't mean to be mean and I am a delicate flower in the face of such dressings down - but, as you all know, I am working with what I am thinking about beer pricing and value …
The Baltimore Sun On Craft Beer Pricing
Posted by on Friday, November 30, 2007 in - 5 comments
The Baltimore Sun has a regular beer column by Rob Kasper and this week it has picked up the question of price in this column called "How much is too much for a beer": • “I have mixed feelings about these top-dollar prices. On the one hand, it is a sign that beer is taking a step up in the …
Again With The Beer Price Points And Cost Inputs
Posted by on Sunday, October 28, 2007 in - 8 comments
Friday's interesting discussion has spun-off other posts. Stan has posted twice to develop some ideas from the comments and Greg supports the valuation of the premium in beer, suggesting I may be a wee bit of the cheeky contrarian in this - which is of course in part true, but I prefer "The …
Are Craft Beer Prices Too Low? No, They Are Not Too Low.
Posted by on Thursday, October 25, 2007 in - 75 comments
An entirely gratuitous and not quite related chart used to enhance credibility. • What was I thinking? Where was my head when Lew, Stan and Stephen all joined hands and sang Kumbaya (I'm a Minister's kid so that has more levels for me allowing me to use the word in that way) for the cause of …
