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**Walker** · 11-24-2010, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by riverfrontbrewer

This will be my last post in this AHS advertising thread as he pays good advertising dollars

to be a vendor on this site.

yeah, sorry if I am using the thread in an improper manner. I didn't even notice that it was in the vendor forum... i was just discussing the topic of rising prices.

I'll go away now.

Beerrific · 11-24-2010, 07:57 PM

Was waiting for this to happen. The bad wheat crop in Russia along with the things Forrest posted are going to bring an increase in a lot of food products. What is probably more frustrating than paying 20% more for grain, is that beer prices are probably going to go up, and when they continue to sell well, they will not lower the price when grain prices go back down (just like what happened a couple years ago). Great for them, bad for my wallet.

**Austinhomebrew** · 11-25-2010, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by riverfrontbrewer

This will be my last post in this AHS advertising thread as he pays good advertising dollars

to be a vendor on this site. Buuuut, I would agree that collusion is illegal, though many industries will raise the prices of their products and/or services all at once and nobody balks....airlines anyone?

This really isn't an advertising post. I am just letting you know the info that you guys need to be an educated consumer of homebrew supplies.

With the airlines, I am sure that they don't even need to talk to each other by now. If gas goes up they all raise the price. The instant one of the airlines raises their price the others know and see the opportunity to raise as well.

Forrest

prosper · 11-25-2010, 07:56 PM

I don't know about 'canada' as a whole (it's a big place), but the farmers near here are very happy about this year's growing season, which has been nearly ideal

Battery_BreweryNJ · 11-25-2010, 09:40 PM

Forrest if you dont mind me asking, who do you buy from(supplier wise) I work at Brewers Apprentice here in NJ and haven't heard anything about this yet? I know weyermann's prices just dropped about 3-4 months ago. You can PM me if you don't want to post it on here.

**Austinhomebrew** · 11-26-2010, 12:07 AM

We buy grain from 4 or 5 different places. The news came from Country Malt Group. But if their prices are going up everyones prices are going to go up as well.

I will try to minimize my price increases but I won't know the new prices until December.

Forrest

pipapat · 11-26-2010, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by jeffjm

Dang, just as the hop situation is getting better. Time to buy a couple of 50# sacks, I guess.

my group buy grain is almost gone and they gent i was going in with has had to move out of state.

looks like ill be stocking up at my local hb shop to off set the price increase.

SPLASTiK · 11-26-2010, 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Walker

If anything, I would expect the prices right now to be falling. And this does seem to be the case, at least in Montana. According to the USDA, prices fell almost every single month in 2010.

About 6 months ago the Homebrew Shop I ordered grains from reported that their supplier's prices dropped because the last crop was really good and far exceeded demand so they were dropping their store prices... except the organic crop which wasn't as good of a harvest as expected and prices went up a few bucks a sack. Domestic 2-Row dropped from $33/sack to $30.75 and I guess it just dropped again as they just charged me $28 last week. 10-20% I guess would put them back to what I was paying a year ago.

**lurker18** · 11-26-2010, 06:10 PM

I work in the grain industry, and am involved in malt barley research, on a tasting pannel. The guys in power there all agree that this years crop is VERY VERY poor, as far as malting goes. Canada was hit very hard in the major malt growing regions with wet weather, early frosts. The US surplus that is talked about is not malt barley, it is feedstock, and some of this could be brought back up malt quality, but not much. South America, the next choice for North American maltsters, was also hit with weather problems. We all heard about the Russian problems, so that is out. The only place that had signifigant amounts of malt quality barley is Australia, and the shipping to here will kill the prices.
Those that saw the prices drop recently are getting that from last years crop, which was very good, but that is almost moved through the system by now. Expect to see the price increases coming in the new year.

**Nikobrew** · 11-27-2010, 03:52 PM

Forrest,

Thanks for posting this, I'm glad someone did.