Yesterday, I was on my way home and wanted to pick up a six or two of something different for the weekend. I went to QFC (one of the two big grocery store chains out here, the other being Safeway), and was kind of surprised how much beer prices have creeped up over the past couple years or so.
The "sale"price (ie, the price when you have the store discount card) for just about everything micro is now 8.99 or 9.99. No card? You are paying 10.99 and up.
Then I walked down the aisle a little to the edge of where the macro swill is kept. In a tiny vertical slice of shelf space, were a series of imports. Various offerings of things like Guiness, Leffe Blond, Pilsner Urquell, Schofferhofer grapefruit, and stuff like that. Then it caught my eye - A 6 pack of DAB 500 ml cans in shrink wrapped plastic for $7.99. I bought it and a 6 of a Summer beer from Deschutes for 8.99.
What the heck has happened? We have gotten to the point that the German Imported Beers cost less than the ones brewed 20 miles away.
What are you guys paying for a 6 pack in your area?
PS- I popped a can of DAB when I got home, and it had "IT", and while I could tell it wasn't straight out of the fermenter, it still tasted pretty damn good. It's gonna be tasty this afternoon when it gets almost to 90F here today. (You folks that live on the surface of the sun in AZ/NV/NM - well, you chose that).