![]() ![]() “They want $100/year now?” one reviewer noted. On Untappd, a beer-rating app, some reviews now include criticism of Otto’s. An Otto’s Facebook post announcing the new annual membership drew enough ire in 41 comments that the brewery closed the comments and made them invisible to the public. That sentiment was echoed plenty elsewhere. ![]() (Lifetime memberships, which were closed to the public about four years ago, previously cost a one-time fee of $150.) Stack called the move a “massive slap in the face.” In place of the lifetime program, new and existing customers can instead sign up for a $100- per- year Pub Club membership. “We won’t simply stop frequenting them or stop recommending them to all the people that come visit throughout the year we will actively steer them toward establishments we feel have better earned the business.” “Speaking with several of my friends, we’ve come to the conclusion that Otto’s simply cannot be trusted as a business anymore,” Stack, a Bellefonte resident, told the CDT in an email. Jim Stack estimates he’s frequented Otto’s Pub & Brewery well over 1,000 times since it first opened in the State College area in 2002 - and he’s now not sure when, if ever, he’ll return.ĭozens of longtime customers have publicly expressed anger and disappointment over social media and beer-drinking apps about the brewery’s recent decision to stop honoring its lifetime Pub Club membership at the end of the year, meaning many members’ discount perks and benefits - such as 15% off on certain days of the week - will last far shorter than a “lifetime.” Many more customers are simply fuming privately, especially without the offer of refunds.
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