# Expensive Beers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [May 24, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expensive-beers/583016 "2011-05-24T14:59:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expensive-beers/583016/21 "2011-05-25T13:58:23Z")
Ebay prices for rare/vintage beers have exploded in the past two years. I’ve seen several different beers sell for well over $500 in the past year alone. A bottle of Still Nacht Reserva from 2000 recently sold for over $700. As far as retail, you have the crazy stuff from Brewdog, then Utopias, Deus (about $40 depending on location), Scaldis Prestige (about the same), and a few others. After that, prices would be in the $20-$30 range for a variety of Belgian lambics from Cantillon or Drie Fontienen. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expensive-beers/583016/22 "2011-05-25T14:05:46Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > I hate the term session beer. It’s so fey. Could you imagine a bunch of guys meeting up at the local bar or a buddy’s house for a “session”? Pfft, too precious. People should embrace the term binge, because they’re talking about the same thing: four or five drinks in a night. “It’s a nice binge brew,” sounds a lot better than “It’s a session beer.” The worst I’ve heard is “sessionable”. Ugh. Yet, “bingable” doesn’t sound too shabby. IN the UK we’d refer to a night our on the beers as a “session” or a “sesh”. I never knew we were using proper beer drinking terms … ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expensive-beers/583016/23 "2011-05-25T14:35:14Z")
> [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](#): > > Ebay prices for rare/vintage beers have exploded in the past two years. Buyer beware! Check the wording of the ad carefully. People have been known to sell _empty_ bottles on EBay. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expensive-beers/583016/24 "2011-05-25T15:59:24Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > Four or five drinks is hardly a binge. That’s only one and a bit an hour in a four hour hang out. > > A session beer is one that is _appropriately_ alcoholic for the event and drinkable enough to be more than a single go. Most heavier brews are simply too much for that type of thing. So when we have a film fail festival for example, we need beer that can go for five or six hours. No Dark Lord or Pliny for that. Something more like Double Thumper. It’s textbook binge. I don’t lump the negative connotations in with the word though. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expensive-beers/583016/25 "2011-05-25T17:20:49Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > IN the UK we’d refer to a night our on the beers as a “session” or a “sesh”. I never knew we were using proper beer drinking terms … There’s apparently [some](http://beeradvocate.com/articles/653) evidence that the term originally came from the UK and referred to a beer you could drink for 3 or 4 hours before having to go back to work. If that’s the case, it definitely refers to a lower alcohol beer that’s not strictly intended to get you drunk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expensive-beers/583016.md?page=1)