Big Easy Pony wrote:Beer companies apparently are insane.
- First it was wide-mouth bottles and cans (which did nothing other than allow you to get drunk faster).
- One touts a bottle on which the label turns to blue to let the drinker know the beer is cold (because picking up the bottle would be too challenging?)
- Another has a bottle with grooves on the inside of the neck, allegedly to "release" the flavor completely. Does this mean the company had been withholding flavor for all of those years before the bottle was created (and if so, shouldn't the money spent in past years on that beer be returned)?
- Now you can buy beer in a bottle that has a special label on which you can write (name, phone number, etc.) with a key or the edge of a coin.
So the question: has anyone EVER bought a beer that otherwise wouldn't be purchased because of one of these ridiculous gimmicks?
OK, if you like Coors Light, you like it, and you'll buy it with or without the label that turns blue (although if you can't tell whether it's cold enough, you've had too much to drink already). Seems to me you buy a beer because you have had it before and like the taste, or someone recommends it, or maybe a bar/restaurant is out of your choice and you try another because your options are limited.
I have bought a hell of a lot of beer in my life (I do live in Louisiana, after all), and not once have I passed on a beer I really like because it didn't have a fancy bottle or can.
Does ANYONE do that?
And how much less expensive would beer be if the breweries didn't spend so much money on those stupid cans and bottles?
OK, my rant is over. I'm off to lunch, which I assure you will include several beers ... in normal bottles. I'm weird, I guess, because I base my beer selection on taste.
Simple answer: People can be, and are manipulated - Just look at the last presidential election. Not trying to be political here or judge how he is doing in office - but the marketing of Obama was by far the greatest ad campaign I have seen in my lifetime. A guy with very little experience and no background gets elected to be the president of the United States.
Per the Guide this weekend, it was started by a couple of guys who were running an internet beer "gift bucket" company who had extra inventory. They have about six beers on tap and many bottles for consumption there. Or you can get your beer to go.
jtstang wrote:What's the scoop on this new place on Greenville by the 7-11, Bottle Shop? Just noticed it this morning when I stopped at 7-11 to gas up.
Got to witness firsthand one of those barroom brawls you see in a movie once in a place called 'the bottleshop'. Only as a bystander, of course
Now Miller Lite is marketing cans that apparently are "specially designed" to allow people to punch an extra hole in the top in order to allow more flavor or something. Are they really claiming they invented the idea of shotgunning a beer?
Nah, just a gimmick like the "wide mouth" cans so you drink em faster, and drink more. I've tried and it's a complete pain in the [deleted]. Better off just shotgunning the old fashion way, or, failing that, drinking a real beer.
