This sounds like an excellent idea.! As much as I can help from across the pond:
1) Wine and spirits I tend to get from the local supermarket, but beer I go hunt down from our own local brewery every now and then now my boss told me about it, and their stuff is pretty good. I also buy up mead from the nearby apiary once a year.
2) I have the odd beer every now and then, personally once a week on average. Wine and spirits are primarily for parties or special occasions. Mead is very specialist and I tend to drink it only rarely.
3,4,5) Flavour, I think. Separating the categories out, though, wines are very subjective based on grape variety and flavour, beers I personally try whatever looks interesting and isn't too expensive and not too dark, and mead, well, only when I can get my hands on it, and whatever there is.
6) Mmm, that's a difficult one. Given I'm on a different market with different taxes, I'm not sure I can sensibly help you there.
7) That kind of scheme is actually implemented around here! It's pretty popular, particularly with students and entire kegs of beer at a time, but not that uncommon with bottles, too. I'd be all for it!
8) Well, I tend to cycle across town, so a few kilometres for beer and mead, compared to only a few hundred metres for wines and spirits at the supermarket.
9) I only go that far when I know that there is stuff I want out there. Most of my knowledge of brewers is entirely word-of-mouth from my co-workers and friends, so big advertising campaigns is not so economical to get to my type of consumer. What keeps me going back is that the stuff is good, though.
1) Wine and spirits I tend to get from the local supermarket, but beer I go hunt down from our own local brewery every now and then now my boss told me about it, and their stuff is pretty good. I also buy up mead from the nearby apiary once a year.
2) I have the odd beer every now and then, personally once a week on average. Wine and spirits are primarily for parties or special occasions. Mead is very specialist and I tend to drink it only rarely.
3,4,5) Flavour, I think. Separating the categories out, though, wines are very subjective based on grape variety and flavour, beers I personally try whatever looks interesting and isn't too expensive and not too dark, and mead, well, only when I can get my hands on it, and whatever there is.
6) Mmm, that's a difficult one. Given I'm on a different market with different taxes, I'm not sure I can sensibly help you there.
7) That kind of scheme is actually implemented around here! It's pretty popular, particularly with students and entire kegs of beer at a time, but not that uncommon with bottles, too. I'd be all for it!
8) Well, I tend to cycle across town, so a few kilometres for beer and mead, compared to only a few hundred metres for wines and spirits at the supermarket.
9) I only go that far when I know that there is stuff I want out there. Most of my knowledge of brewers is entirely word-of-mouth from my co-workers and friends, so big advertising campaigns is not so economical to get to my type of consumer. What keeps me going back is that the stuff is good, though.
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For #6, I can fudge around with the numbers. It is an estimate, after all.
7) oh, kegs! I had forgotten.
Thank you, Tall dear :) Very helpful.
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