I'm still about 50/50 on liquor store/brewery purchases. Most brewers here do a really good job of making their stuff available at the brewery and distributing to stores around the city to get it into as many hands as possible, even their limited releases.
I've been stocking 4pks of fresh TG Psuedo Sue at $7.99 all summer to offset the $15-18 4pks of special or rotating releases. With our +11% sales tax, 4pks can reach $20 pretty quickly. I love NEIPAs, but it's pretty rare that I'm able to take down a 4pk of the same one by myself, so I like to drink a couple and share or trade the others for something outside my market or were in-market that I may have missed.
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