Comments on: Blue Moon Grand Cru – Worth the $11 Price Tag?

By: Brinker

Brinker — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:50:14 +0000

I saw this for the first time in a store the other day, the price on the 750ml bottle was $19.99, I love beer, and I like Blue Moon a good deal, but that’s ridiculous….

By: michigan beer enthusiast

michigan beer enthusiast — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:55:36 +0000

just picked up a case at 2$ a bottle, and it was the best decision I have made in a while!! but never for 11$ a bottle. definitely not worth it.

By: puyallup guy

puyallup guy — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:53:01 +0000

i’ve tried it a few times only because at winco you can geet it for 3.38 a bottle so i jumped all over it after seeing it earlier for nine or ten dollars

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:47:08 +0000

seeing as how it’s april and all, i just picked up a case of these for sixteen smackeroos. that’s right. twelve of these bad boys for sixteen bones. a buck and a third for a bottle. i wouldn’t bother commenting, but these aren’t going to last forever, so i’ve got to work at them solo… and i’m curious as to everyone’s attitudes, as i rather like blue moon.

By: Thad

Thad — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:04:49 +0000

Addendum: * Sorry all, I just have to add if someone is talking about the first brewery to sell after “prohibition”, I’d never gone to Washington DC in my life before until 2 years ago. I tried the beer from what bills itself as America’s oldest brewery. Do you know what that is? Yuengling, the first few nights, I thought it was nectar from the gods, really, I may exagerrate and I had enough after a week there but I urge you to try it, I think Budweiser’s American Ale must be styled after Yuengling. I think I like Bud’s American Ale more than this Grand Cru…but that’s just me…

By: Thad

Thad — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:56:37 +0000

Searching for the vibe on this bear, maybe it’s a bit older than from the time these posts were made in December… but I found it at $4.99 after being scared away seeing it for around $10. I even saw it paraded around in a sports bar back around Christmas… anyway, I am currently tasting it. Maybe at around $5 it’s worth it but otherwise I don’t think it is so landmark, honest. Just fair but judge for yourselves, maybe it is around now discounted. Unfortunately, maybe one would be better to try one of the “old country” beers. Anchor Steam sure lives up to it’s American Legend, maybe I need to get another six pack of that.

By: richard

richard — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:48:54 +0000

fun facts from where i live:

the first brewery in the nation to release beer after prohibition was the F.X. Matt brewery of Utica, NY…

1875, Waterville was considered the “Hop Capital of the World.” Several inventions essential to the raising and curing of hops were created in the area, the most important of which was the liquid Hop Extract, and in the late 1860s the International Hop Stock Exchange was established.

After the advent of rail service in 1867, Waterville became the primary shipping point for hop-related cargo. “Waterville Hops” as well as Hop Extract were shipped to brewers all over the world

and about blue moon Grand Cru

well because i know someone in the distrabution in NY we are now the proud owners of 12/25oz bottles for mearly $80.. i have yet to try them but i am a fan of sediment in the bottle like OMMEGANG / cooperstown NY where some bottles of equal size can be 10-11 dollars but they are a micro not macro company. If i crack one of theses blue moons tonight and dont see the point i can find comfort knowing i can still get expensive beer that will taste like expensive beer should or reasonable priced beer from FX MATT ie Saranac rye beer, maple porter, black forest, the list goes on and utica clubs of course.

(sorry just gotta say F.X. MATT rocks)

By: Dean Ruffner

Dean Ruffner — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:31:48 +0000

Brendan –

Have you ever had to reproach a colleague?

When you do, you praise in public and punish in private.

Otherwise, one begins to sound like some kind of uptight tool, and no one wants to sound like that.

Cheers,

By: Kaiser

Kaiser — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:19:06 +0000

Brendan – In any review where I received the beer from the brewery, I do indeed acknowledge that I was given the sample free. See the bottom of some of the recent “Grab a Beer” reviews I’ve done.

As for the paragraph I wrote, that is no different than putting a link on my website saying “Please contact me to submit samples for review.” Or, when I solicit samples via email for the NW Brewing News panel that I run.
What about on Beeradvocate where if you are looking at the profile for a certain beer and “the brothers” do not have a rating for it, there is a link to “send ‘em beer”? No different in my eyes, and not unethical or unprofessional.

Maybe you read into my statement that I was suggesting that if I got the beer for free that I would put up a cupcake, positive review of it regardless of what I thought. That’s not true. Getting free beer doesn’t require me to give it a positive review.

To actually answer your question though, I most definitely have not taken any sort of journalism class ever, let alone ethics. It’s probably obvious to many that I have no training as a writer; I’m a finance guy for my full time job. I don’t get paid for anything I do on SBN.com, so I’ll take the free beer where I can get it.

By: Brendan Gramer

Brendan Gramer — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:19:55 +0000

“What’s the verdict? I probably won’t buy it at this price. If I see it for $8, I might give a try. Or, the brewery can contact me about sending samples for review; then I’ll definitely put up an honest review of it:-)”

Have you taken any Journalism ethics classes? That last paragraph quoted above was highly unprofessional and unethical. When you do write a “honest” review of this beer, be sure to acknowledge that you were given free samples of this beer as according to Federal Law requiring disclosure. ( see: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm Note the 3rd and 4th paragraphs)

Good luck!

Cheers,
BG