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Yesterday's light post--part of my only half-serious whinge series--provoked a surprising amount of very serious pushback.  A few of the comments appeared here, but far more on Facebook--the platform to which most discussion seems to be moving.  That pushback flowed down three main channels, and we shall deal with them all in due cour ...

There Are No Good Arguments For Overpaying

Yesterday’s light post–part of my only half-serious whinge series–provoked a surprising amount of very serious pushback.  A few of the comments appeared here, but far more on Facebook–the platform to which most discussion seems to be moving.  That pushback flowed down three main channels, and we shall deal with them all in due course.  However, just so we don’t bury the lede too deeply: they’re all wrong.  In this omnibus response, I explain why.

Filling Bombers is Ungodly Expensive
This is the most superficially persuasive case. In comments below, Frank White (who sent us unnecessarily down the rabbit hole of the culture wars), puts it this way:

A small brewery using a third party to bottle beer in small batches — beer that cost the small guy a lot more per oz to produce, due to diseconomies of scale — is going to have WAY higher costs of production than even a good-sized craft brewery. Try 2x.

On Facebook, TS, a brewery insider, statted it out:

For reference, let’s consider a 10 B

Source: Beervana

Read the full article here.

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