No thanks. Not a single beer in the world even close to that kind of money. Heck, $100 for a single beer is silly. I sure hope it was a charity thing.

Seriously ridiculous. The best part is I'd bet at least a couple of those guys plunking down 2 Grand make a normal middle class salary like me.

quote: Originally posted by eaglefan538 No thanks. Not a single beer in the world even close to that kind of money. Heck, $100 for a single beer is silly. I sure hope it was a charity thing.

I said today that $2000 is about $1970 more than I would ever spend on a single bottle of beer. HOD sold a case of Dave with all the money actually going to a dog charity which is cool but it wouldn't bother me if it went back to the brewery, either. Portland is one of the only cities I know that can actually get away with doing something like this. Lots of beer geeks with hidden agendas. 3/4 of those Daves are likely to leave the city by the weekend. It's a white whale, bro. Gotta tick that shit!

quote: Originally posted by slowrunner77 Seriously ridiculous. The best part is I'd bet at least a couple of those guys plunking down 2 Grand make a normal middle class salary like me.

Yup!

No Fucking Way. For that amount of greenbacks I could fly to Portland (again), drink copious amounts of beer with a cool BeerPal, eat well, and enjoy my fat sassy ass.

Here is a little blurb about the bottle sale yesterday. A couple of the guys I talked to who bought a Dave admitted they were proxies for a trader friend elsewhere. They'll get their $2k back plus some really awesome beer. [url]http://beerservedrare.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/hair-of-the-dog-dave-bottles-for-sale/[/url] Just don't drop that bottle of beer en route to FedEx! [;)]

I look at this as like another baby-step in beer's progression towards wine and some of the exclusion that takes place with certain producers. Yeah, you can have this special beverage but only for a eye-popping, wallet gouging $2k. If you want to donate $10k to a dog charity, why not make 1,000 bottles of something special and sell it for $10?

So Travis...save your bottle til March, eh? [;)]

quote: Originally posted by slowrunner77 So Travis...save your bottle til March, eh? [;)]

I gave Travis his bottle; he didn't have to pay one cent. He's using in his bread recipe.

OK, I've started adding Brewing Lair beers under the Undercover Aleworks label, since it doesn't seem like it's going to be corrected anytime soon. Just in case anyone cares...