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Another one of those interesting beer blogs. This one's from Wirral, U.K. Home of Brimstage Brewery and Tranmere Rovers.
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Expensive 'craft' beer
There have been plenty of comments regarding the price of 'craft' beers and the perception that the mark up is excessive.
I was in Port Street Beer House on Sunday and would have been tempted by the X-Mas Zinnebir from the excellent de la Senne brewery in Brussels. However, the blackboard was showing a price of £10/pint! I know it's imported but I've seen plenty of other foreign beers on draught at different location much cheaper than that. I think a lot of Londoners would baulk at that price never mind Mancunians. The beer is 6.5% so it is not rocket fuel. I'll be interested to compare the price of say the 10.5% Gouden Carolus Christmas at the Manchester Velodrome festival next month, granted there will be lower overheads.
They say a fool and his money are soon parted; that applies particularly to snobby craft beer enthusiasts. No wonder Brewdog shifted away from cask beer with its lower profit margins.
ReplyDeleteDare I suggest that if you were particularly concerned about value for money you wouldn't be drinking in PSBH in the first place?
ReplyDeleteA fair point. We only had an hour between trains at Piccadilly so it was a reasonably near. I chose a cask beer at a miserly £4.20/pint.
ReplyDelete" I chose a cask beer at a miserly £4.20/pint." And I thought drinking here in the south-east was expensive!
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