The Booze Thread

[Rome]

My local place had $3.00 pints of all the Kona brewing selections last weekend and I got peppered trying all of them.  That was the best of the bunch.  They have it at Jackie Robinson Ballpark for the Daytona Cubs too and they have 32 ounce drafts for $3.25 on Thirsty Thursdays.  I might drink 10 of them next time I go.   Seriously good shtein.

[Don Ho]

That's great, $3 pints.  Did you try the Wailua Ale?  Not bad. 

[Seabiscuit36]

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This shtein is righteous.  Drank a few at the ball game last night.  Tasty.

The true Hawaiian in you is coming out!  Kona Brewing also makes Longboard Lager which I really enjoyed until Hawaii 5-0 shoved it down our throats with all the product placement.  The McGarret to Dan-o "How bout a Longboard" lines make me quite ill.

Same here Don.  Plus the stuff we get out east is brewed by inbev or something, and to me doesn't have the same flavors as the stuff we had at Koko Marina

[Rome]

I just stumbled into a bar a mile from my house I had no idea was here.

They have $4 Dogfish 90 Min IPA on tap during happy hour for $4.  How the farg is this possible?   More later...

[PhillyPhreak54]

How much are they?

[ice grillin you]

How much are they?

More later...

maybe well find out eventually...

[Diomedes]

How much are they?

Yeah, how much do the $4 ones on tap during happy hour for $4 cost?

[Munson]

$4 aint bad for a $4 Dogfish 90 minute. It'll get ya drunk.

[Rome]

they're $8 usually.  and i wasn't drunk when i posted that.  later... a little bit.

[Eagaholic]

For the few scotch drinks here, Costco has a really nice 16 year old Speyside in for about $32, drinks more like a $65 bottle imo. It is Alexander Murray  16 yr old oak aged (1995 vintage). I'm not a single malt snob, I often prefer Johnnie Walker at a given price point, but this gets the nod imo at $32 over JW gold at $75/bottle. Did several rounds of head to head competition to confirm. For the Murray - Salut!! (which I think is Italian or something for toasting  $32sluts).   

[Diomedes]

How much does the $32 Speyside single malt at Costco for $32 cost?

[Eagaholic]

$4 a bottle.
I actually like it more than the $75 JW gold label which you can sometimes find for under $80.

[Susquehanna Birder]

How much is the scotch at any Costco in PA?

[Eagaholic]

How has nobody ever won a legal challenge to that absurd state store system? Still blows my mind every time I go there. It's one hell of a racket they've got going on and usually corporate business wins those in the end. I'm surprised they will give drivers licenses to people under 40 in PA. They should allow abortions on law makers up to the 160th trimester.

[Diomedes]

It's a farged up system in both the control state and non control state models, but I think the he state distribution model is actually more efficient than the private model.

By law in non-controls states, the distillery/winery/importer can sell only to the distributor, who can in turn sell only to the retailer (be it for on-premise consumption i.e. bar or restaurant, or for off-premise consumption, i.e. package store), who can in turn sell only to the consumer.  Skip this chain and you get immediate attention from the law, and the fines are serious.  No one messes with it.  And why should they anyway?  Once you're in the game, everyone gets their cut and the government gets a cut each time they do.

In the control states, the distributor is cut out of the loop.  The manufacturer sells to the state, the state sells to the consumer.

It's a system put in place at the end of prohibition for reasons I don't remember well enough to lay out here.  Something about keeping the manufacturers from undue influence on the market, etc.  I think it's just a tax grab and the private companies don't mind because they get caked off just fine in a nice, stable system.