I also feel I make pretty decent beer. I do however buy more commercial beer than I should. Not because their beer is better but because I'm not brewing enough to keep up with demand. I'm slowly working on changing that. One of my hang ups is I'm not sold on dry yeast and even though making a starter from liquid yeast is fairly easy and really not that time consuming I've found the time to make starters is a PIA. I need to fire up the big ass canner and get some canned starters going again and that would fix that issue.
Back to commercial beer. I think beer prices are (pardon my language) is fecking insane. Breweries like Ballast Point and DFH, for example, charging $15/6 for IpA is outrageous. My goal is to find a comparative beer for $8-9/6. It is getting harder and harder to do this. I realize the cost of ingredients etc is getting higher and higher all the time but I also think there is some greed there. I picked up some singles of DFH 60 and 90 the other day for $2 and some change each. Mehhh, not again. I've decided that these expensive beers I will just buy a single pint at some of the local tap houses to try out and save my money at the LQS. Also, our local pubs are making outstanding beers charging way less.
Edited by BlKtRe, 17 August 2017 - 06:20 AM.