This Bar’s $15 Colt 45 Is A Low Blow To Cheap Beer

Dawg, gentrification at its finest. Wow!!!!! pic.twitter.com/hosX4a7WY1

— |j| (@JVR24_) December 18, 2016

Okay, fancy restaurants. I get that you like to take lower-cost foods and turn it into upscale dishes. If it’s higher quality food or done with innovation, I can accept that.

This level of ridiculousness, however, I cannot accept.

In Hollywood, Saint Felix’s has decided to show all of society how low they can go by taking a 40-ounce bottle of Colt 45 — which we can get at basically any liquor store for 3 bucks — and selling it for FIFTEEN DOLLARS.

Their “twist” on this popular cheap way to get drunk? They’re selling it in a brown paper bag — you know, the kind that we typically carry around our forties in already. Sorry, Saint Felix, there’s no way you get to mark up a ridiculously cheap beer 500% because you sell it in a paper bag and offer it out of a bar.

Nobody’s getting fooled as to what’s happening here. Taking a good ‘ol forty and putting it at a price that’s clearly designed for the upper class? That’s a complete jerk move to cheap beer lovers, especially when all of the other beers on your menu are half its price.

Liquid volume has nothing to do with it — this beer is literally produced to be ridiculously cheap and to get you drunk fast. If you’re going to sell it at a bar or restaurant, offer it at the price you would normally get it at in a store, or maybe 1 or 2 bucks more to cover costs. But $12 more? Get outta here.

Sorry Saint Felix, I’m sure you’re a good bar with decent food (as the Yelp reviews say you are). But doing this to one of the cheapest beers out there is something I, and frankly I’m sure everybody else, cannot get behind.