Quote Originally Posted by RonMexico View Post
The first beer tour cost roughly $550. Each tour after cost $475. Now old cs has a great happy hour from 3-6 and beers are 1$ off drafts. So you can possibly complete a beer tour for around 400$. Currently you can win food if you play a football contest called beat the leader each week.
Once you've hit your VIP status (10th tour), you can drink any beers you want, and they all count the same. Prior to that 10th, you were supposed to drink 110 different beer (numbers) per tour, so couldn't avoid the expensive imports.

Anyhoo, back in the day, you also got your beer for happy hour price all the time, which was $2.00, later $2.49 a pint, so once you'd hit your 10th tour, you could drink your favorite domestic swill pretty cheaply, to the tune of $220 per tour before 2005, and you also got kickbacks in the form of "foamer bucks", in the amount of about $50 per tour, so the total cost of each tour beyond your 10th was closer to $170, and the beer was cheaper there than almost any other place in town.

Since then, cutbacks and changes to the tour system have doubled or tripled the per-tour cost, and diluted the benefits VIP status brings you - which is why I pretty much only do the mini tours now, and drink elsewhere (like with buddies at home) instead of buying $5 pints at OC.