The price of a pint

$6-7 for a 20 oz pint; growler fills aren't too much more most places ($12-20 usually). Most breweries do 4-5oz samplers at ~9 for 4.

//edit half pours are generally only $1-2 less and are 14 oz not 20; I'd much prefer 8/16 oz pours and slightly lower price point.

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cost plus 50% (profit and overhead)

use a simple cost of labor + supplies

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for a typical beer, what would that work out to be, generally speaking? Obviously prices for batches can fluctuate wildly.

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GR is $5 for all pours, but some pours are bigger than others

seems reasonable enough for me

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This is pretty standard in Portland.

Many of the taprooms will price the pour based on a percentage of profit and round it up to the nearest quarter. They will also give you whatever size pour you want and adjust the price accordingly. The POS system calculates the price for them.

Most of the breweries offer 10/12/16 oz and charge around 5 bucks.

The idea that its cost plus a % is BS imo. There's plenty of breweries I can go to and buy a 6 pack for $9-12 then they are selling beers on tap for $5+. That math simply does not add up. There's just no way you can pay for the packaging, pay for the bottles, and pay for the delivery plus the store makes money and you are still selling beers for almost triple that 20 feet from where it is brewed for almost no cost to keg? Come on.

My neighbor owns a brewery in the Destin area and his prices are absurd imo, but they are busy and he's making money so I can't blame him. He gives me deals if he is around, but I wouldn't pay $6-8 for a pint unless he was my neighbor that is ludicrous.

They also like to make you think certain beers are more expensive when they aren't. Take a porter or stout, they often times are no more expensive than a standard run of the mill pale ale and the prices are rarely the same. Yeah hops are pricey so your very hoppy beers are more, but they are maybe and I mean MAYBE 25 cents a beer more not double the price.

Beer prices are absurd right now, I don't know if it will change honestly but they are absurd. I've brewed beer so I know how much it costs, and its pretty cheap unless you are making very small batches.

I haven't homebrewed in a couple of years, but the price to brew a very hoppy IPA was less than double that of the cheapest beer I could do which was like 40 cents so it was around 70-75 cents for a hoppy beer. I would guess a microbrewery can cut that down to closer to 50 cents a beer to brew plus whatever their equipment and labor costs are so maybe closer to $1.

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Good point, baw. The price at the sauce can change a lot depending on how juicy the batch of GOAT is. Batch 4 was probably the most expensive.

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I clarified because by law pints are 20 oz here. Periodically there's a scandal where some bar gets busted using US glassware and short changing people.

Hard for this o.e country boy to pay 5 and change for a beer when I can get a six pack for that at da store. I usta love to belly up to the bar but now that I am older and not working I happily drink my beer by da fire pit and control my own juke box. Just so ya know how trashy I am I sat by the fire called my wife on the cell phone to bring me a beer and God bless her she did. TWICE!! Who needs bar room prices when I got fire pit service and I can apt her on the arse and not get slapped

I have also often wondered how much it costs a brewery for each pint they brew. I live in Virginia and am visiting Denver. Pint of craft beer at breweries are from $5-7 at VA and Denver

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GR is $5 for all pours, but some pours are bigger than others

seems reasonable enough for me

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$5 does seem reasonable enough. Oddly enough, I don't mind paying $2 for a 4 oz pour, but I wouldn't want to pay $8 for a pint.