Best Beer Prices?

[klauspood.livejournal.com]

Which liquor store in the area has the best prices for beer? It seems to me that beer prices have been rising just like milk and other food products. Any thoughts?

Comments

[zenala.livejournal.com]

Beer is made from grain, and grain prices are going up. Makes sense.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Also, there's been a hop shortage for some time now.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Rumor has it that Sam Adams was selling hops they had as surplus to smaller area microbreweries who couldn't get hops elsewhere.

[afty.livejournal.com]

Not rumor, but truth:
http://www.samueladams.com/promotions/HopSharing/Default.aspx

Sam Adams is doing a good thing here. They had contracted for a certain amount of hops at the pre-shortage price and are selling their excess at cost to small breweries, less than 1/3 the current price.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

They are indeed doing a good thing. It made me want to buy their beer! :)

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Beer prices are likely to rise faster: there's been some sort of blight to some major hops crops, and a lack of planting of other styles due, in oart, to over-planting and a surplus in prior years.

Best prices, I don't know.
Best selection I've found, Downtown Liquors in Davis.

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Narragansett is still cheap: $20 for a case of 16-ounce cans, including deposit. Of course, it's not very *good* beer...

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

You are right, its not good, its great! :-)

It's my favorite of the ultra crap beers - PBR drinkers be damned!

[kevin-church.livejournal.com]

IAWTC. That and Dundee's Honey Brown are the house beers at Chez Church.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

i LOVE honey browns but it's been ages since i had one. of course, now that i pretty much only drink beers at places like the publick house [or the last call corona when i'm hammered], it probably wouldn't be as good as i remembered.

narragansett is drinkable but that says very little. gross. but pbr is only second to natty ice for absolute bottom of the barrel beers that i won't touch.

[ron_newman]

Tried it once for nostalgia's sake, since it's a revival of a supposedly beloved and defunct local brand.

Once was enough.

[hdaemon.livejournal.com]

No suggestion about where to find the best prices, but it's certainly true that they have been rising. There is currently a serious hop shortage (http://www.byo.com/feature/1715.html), which has made it much more expensive to brew, and thus more expensive to buy. And having grain prices going up has only made the situation worse.

Thoughts? Sure.

[daft.livejournal.com]

Beer, milk, and other food products are all transported by fossil fuel-burning vehicles.

The rest of this equation would almost be insulting to type out.

[rainoftoads.livejournal.com]

Best prices, but not the best selection, is probably Trader Joe's on Memorial Ave. in Cambridge.

Best selection, but not the best prices, Downtown Liquors.

If you can make it over the Mystic River, Kappy's in Medford falls somewhere between the two.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

That said, solidly the best beer bargain right now is Trader Joe's winter seasonal, which is going for about four dollars a six pack.

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

It may be time to become better acquainted with Mr. Charles Shaw.

[diatomacearth.livejournal.com]

Would that be Two-Buck Chuck?

[joylewis.livejournal.com]

Huh. I would have thought the rising cost of beer would be directly correlative to the length of the Republican administration and hence rising demand...

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

and crack too.

Fortunately...

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Well, the whole debacle in Afghanistan has increased opium harvests and so at least the scag price is down.

Re: Fortunately...

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

just my damn luck- I gave up heroin for the war effort.

[tt02144.livejournal.com]

Try Atlas Liquors on Mystic Ave in Medford. Turn left at the bottom of Harvard Street and you'll see it on the right. Great selection, great prices.

[anotherthink.livejournal.com]

Cambridge Wine and Spirits (in the Fresh Pond mall near Alewife) for the best prices on a big selection (kind of inconvenient without a car, though).

[ron_newman]

That's what granny carts are for.

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

Hauling around four or five cases of beer? (Maybe Dr. Mrs. McCarthy)

[ron_newman]

Well, I was thinking four or five six-packs, not cases!

When you want it done right...

[davelew.livejournal.com]

The Modern Homebrew Emporium on Mass Ave has a selection limited only by your imagination.

Re: When you want it done right...

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Not exactly, with the hops shortages mentioned above.

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

Ah, back in college we would literally run for the border (of NH) every thursday night and fill an F-150 with 30's of keystone, miluakee beast, etc.. oh for those bygone days

[afty.livejournal.com]

Liquor World in Porter has a fantastic beer selection (not quite as good as Downtown, but better than anywhere else nearby) and decent prices (10-15% better than Downtown).

[rmd.livejournal.com]

brew your own! cheaper and tastier! (or so i heard. i don't care for anybody's beer, pretty much.)

my homebrewing fiend friends are even starting to grow their own hops.

[nhradar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I'm always suspicious about the Davis Square soil. I'm not sure I'd trust it for hops (which can't be grown in pots). :)

I, also, am a fan of liquor world. They have been doing a job of having a very high-quality beer selection.

(btw, to quantify...malt prices have doubled in the last year, in addition to the hops (which have gone up more than that, but which are a much smaller percentage of the cost for most beer). On the transportation, Downtown and Liquor World have a wide variety of local beers. I very rarely buy anything made further away than New York. Mmm...paper city

growing hops in pots

[davelew.livejournal.com]

I've heard the conventional wisdom that hops can't be grown in pots.

I've also heard from plenty of people who are disproving conventional wisdom by successfuly growing hops in containers:

http://www.brewboard.com/index.php?showtopic=90152&hl=hops
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/2960