Yeah that's nuts. Stick the word 'craft' in front of a beer and the prices get silly. I didn't pay for those cans, but I think £3.20 isn't awful given that they aren't some massive brewery churning out thousands of gallons of the stuff.
It depends on the IPA they are not all citrusy but the UK are being very one dimensional and all the UK ones tend to go that way.
Think of buying a standard 4 pack of beer mate that's £12.80 they want. If they sold them at £2 a can it's still expensive but if you want something different then okay might be tempting.
They only do 3 different types at the moment so you can't get a 4 pack lol I probably wouldn't go back and buy them tbh. But that said, you can't expect an outfit like that to churn them out at £2 a can and still call it expensive.
Trouble is most the ales I have are like one offs from some local brewery, at a micropub, so I can never remember the names of them, and I don't do that beer app thingy. Wetherspoons will do guest ales, but I don't know if that's a regular thing. I think micropubs probably charge about £4 a pint now, which is fair enough, and Spoons will be somewhere between £2-£3 a pint for a guest ale, probably the latter end of that figure unless you have a ruddles., which is normally the cheapest on the market. I don't drink stouts or guinness, I like a dark ale, but that don't mean black lol. If I'm with my lad, we generally buy a different ale each, so if one is shhite then the next round we know what to buy - if both are shhite I'd give up. I remember on St Patricks day my mate bought some green looking beer, he knew fooking well not to buy me shhite like that, did he drink it, fook off did he.
Lol. I get the experimentation with brewing, but yeah green beer doesn't sound like it will start or end well. I guess like a lot of things, brewing has become a bit 'faddy'
Well yes I'll concede that, a small company is a little different and £2 or even £2.50 would be fair enough. It's just that craft brewers are taking the piss with their prices and making out like they are producing fine wine, it's just beer. Beavertown are a great example of taking the piss they have actually doubled their price in the supermarkets over 3 years.
i used to regularly drink in pubs / clubs with a large biker presence as i knew i was perfectly safe . The only problem was the constant suggestions of how to attach an engine to my chair .
Another example of British craft brewers taking the piss is that I can buy a 4 pack of craft beer in the supermarkets from the US exported and it's banging or I can pay £2 more and get a bang average British one.
Bwood is right about the lager top. If you are going to buy a citrus drink for over £3 a can, you might as well go to the supermarket pick up a cheap can of ale or lager, you can get 4 packs for about two quid, and stick lemonade it - someone like Pinkie wouldn't know the difference once he's off his head with mushrooms.
About to board the boat to Spain. I think my choices will be Kronenburg, Heineken and Lagutinas (?) IPA. The IPA is rocket fuel, will probably have a couple of those. Looking forward to kicking back on deck, it's not raining here. Sunny in fact.
Depends on the hops being used. Like Luv says a lot of the US Pale ales and IPAs are more hoppy and less citrus focused, but the UK craft scene seems to be awash with citrus and fruity IPAs As was the one I was drinking last night.
