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Derek wrote:Fresh produce in a boutique market is often more expensive, and this is exactly that.
If I'm paying boutique prices I want boutique quality! They also need to step up their game on the labelling - it sure as hell doesn't look like a product worth $6, regardless of what's in the bottle!
Beyond the quality of what's IN the bottle, it's the "little" things like the label that really put the finishing touches on products, giving the product a polished look that makes it feel complete and carefully considered.
Bobsy wrote:If I'm paying boutique prices I want boutique quality! They also need to step up their game on the labelling - it sure as hell doesn't look like a product worth $6, regardless of what's in the bottle!
But it has tin foil over the cap. That screams quality. No?
Horrible.
Yeah, I thought this beer was pretty mediocre and I'm surprised at how positive the comments for it are. Is it because this beer is a novelty? Or because it's an okay beer from a brewery with a bad track record and people went in with low expectations? Does it get graded on a curve because it's local? I don't get it.
Oh well. More for you guys eh? I'm sure as hell never getting it again.
Some of these comments are beyond brutal. Who gives a rats ass what the bottle looks like? Yeah, once in a while it is nice to have great presentation in terms of a bottle, but let us be honest here........if this was a Southern Tier beer, nobody would be complaining about the label, and we'd all be yammering on about how good this beer is. Label or not, this is a decent beer.
I am on my 5th bottle of hop nouveau, and it is beyond good. Lots of fresh hop and citrus flavour. This is something I will drink again and again.
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I didn't really care about how the label looked... I pour the beer in a glass and then the bottle is irrelevant. Once I try a product, the marketing doesn't matter to me since I already know what I'm getting.
I just was underwhelmed by the beer. It was ok, and for $6 a bottle, it needs to be better than ok for me to buy again. I can buy a 650 mL bottle of Liberty Ale for $4 and I enjoy it more.
If they make another batch of this next year, I'll give it another try, regardless of what the label looks like.
SteelbackGuy wrote:Some of these comments are beyond brutal. Who gives a rats ass what the bottle looks like?
The consumer?
Not this consumer. I care about what is IN the bottle. If I were to buy bottles based on looks, well then Orval would be out.....so would a lot of others.
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Meh. Nothing to rave about it. I think i've brewed something better myself. 1 bottle was more than enough. I think I actually liked the lable more than the product
SteelbackGuy wrote:Some of these comments are beyond brutal. Who gives a rats ass what the bottle looks like?
The consumer?
Not this consumer. I care about what is IN the bottle. If I were to buy bottles based on looks, well then Orval would be out.....so would a lot of others.
Orval is one of my favorite bottles. AND the beer doesn't taste like sour piss either, imagine that.
Len, you work at the fucking LCBO and it's pretty clear from this forum that you try EVERYTHING that comes in (at least the beer). The average consumer might not buy a bottle of something if the label looks terrible. That goes for Orval too. I consider most of my friends average consumers of beer, and most of them would never have tried Orval if it wasn't for me forcing it on them.
SteelbackGuy wrote:Some of these comments are beyond brutal. Who gives a rats ass what the bottle looks like?
The consumer?
Not this consumer. I care about what is IN the bottle. If I were to buy bottles based on looks, well then Orval would be out.....so would a lot of others.
Compared to the average joe on the street, we're pretty open-minded when it comes to beer, and a bad label has never stopped me buying something I know to be good. To say that people aren't drawn to more attractive packaging is a bit of a fallacy, though, and the reasoning that companies spend millions on marketing.
