Collaboration = overpriced

Originally posted by glennc

As a brewer who’s always in for some collaboration, I couldn’t agree more. I can and will not speak for others, but we always try to set a honoust price on all our beers.
Collaboration does bring some extra costs, and I’m not talking about travelling costs. But the overall point is, if a beer is overpriced in your opinion OldStyleCubFan, don’t buy it. IMO a lot of cheap beers are overpriced as well. Hell, some should be given for free, and even then I would need to think about wether to drink them or not.

Craftbrewers do collaborate to limit costs, but they can do that without making a collaboration-brew or telling the whole world. It can only be done local as well, there is no point in collaborating with say Brewdog to get cheaper grains. We could collaborate by eg exchaning barrels or something. This kind of collaboration does happen, but often no one beside the brewers involved knows about this.

I have learnt a lot by collaborating with other craft brewers, and I hope they learnt something from me too. And even if not, we can only hope a good brew and a longlasting friendship are the result of any collaboration.

Cheers,

Glenn c

Originally posted by glennc

Originally posted by tarheels86
I’m a huge sucker for collaboratives. Some are disappointing. Some are fantastic: avery/russian river collaboration, stone/nogne o/jolly pumpkin holiday ale. Almost all the mikkeller beer we hold dear to our hearts like weasel are all collaborations. The upcoming cigar city and the bruery should be outstanding. They are more expensive, but the overall purpose is not to create more expensive beer for the hell of it. The extra price is what we are willing to pay to see experts from around the world work together and share secrets in order to make the craft beer movement push forward on a macro level. It gives me great pleasure to see people working together rather than suing each other. Sam Adams and other macros would never do a collaboration even though they have hundreds of people on staff that claim to know everything about beer.

As a brewer who’s always in for some collaboration, I couldn’t agree more. I can and will not speak for others, but we always try to set a honoust price on all our beers.
Collaboration does bring some extra costs, and I’m not talking about travelling costs. But the overall point is, if a beer is overpriced in your opinion OldStyleCubFan, don’t buy it. IMO a lot of cheap beers are overpriced as well. Hell, some should be given for free, and even then I would need to think about wether to drink them or not.

Craftbrewers do collaborate to limit costs, but they can do that without making a collaboration-brew or telling the whole world. It can only be done local as well, there is no point in collaborating with say Brewdog to get cheaper grains. We could collaborate by eg exchaning barrels or something. This kind of collaboration does happen, but often no one beside the brewers involved knows about this.

I have learnt a lot by collaborating with other craft brewers, and I hope they learnt something from me too. And even if not, we can only hope a good brew and a longlasting friendship are the result of any collaboration.

Cheers,

Glenn c

Originally posted by Suttree
"Alvinne/Fanø Reasonably Priced Stout"

Originally posted by Suttree
"Alvinne/Duck Rabbit Reasonably Priced Stout"

Originally posted by dkachur

Originally posted by Suttree
"Alvinne/Duck Rabbit Reasonably Priced Stout"

It truly is about the market. There’s a lot of beer I won’t buy because of the cost, but clearly there are enough people that will buy beer in that price range to support the market. If people get tired of paying those prices prices will come down and at some point breweries will have to decide whether it’s worth it to continue the collaborations.

Originally posted by absolutesites
Private clubs are the new collaboration.

Originally posted by tarheels86
I’m a huge sucker for collaboratives. Some are disappointing. Some are fantastic: avery/russian river collaboration, stone/nogne o/jolly pumpkin holiday ale. Almost all the mikkeller beer we hold dear to our hearts like weasel are all collaborations. The upcoming cigar city and the bruery should be outstanding. They are more expensive, but the overall purpose is not to create more expensive beer for the hell of it. The extra price is what we are willing to pay to see experts from around the world work together and share secrets in order to make the craft beer movement push forward on a macro level. It gives me great pleasure to see people working together rather than suing each other. Sam Adams and other macros would never do a collaboration even though they have hundreds of people on staff that claim to know everything about beer.

Originally posted by fidelis83

Originally posted by tarheels86
I’m a huge sucker for collaboratives. Some are disappointing. Some are fantastic: avery/russian river collaboration, stone/nogne o/jolly pumpkin holiday ale. Almost all the mikkeller beer we hold dear to our hearts like weasel are all collaborations. The upcoming cigar city and the bruery should be outstanding. They are more expensive, but the overall purpose is not to create more expensive beer for the hell of it. The extra price is what we are willing to pay to see experts from around the world work together and share secrets in order to make the craft beer movement push forward on a macro level. It gives me great pleasure to see people working together rather than suing each other. Sam Adams and other macros would never do a collaboration even though they have hundreds of people on staff that claim to know everything about beer.

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