WSJ article on skyrocketing cost of beer.

Well, a on good beer anyway.

Not that there haven't been other articles recently, but this is the first one I've seen with actual pricing changes (.50-1.00 a six pack).

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119153971071549546.html?mod=hps_us_inside_today


... also check the little graph showing the spike in malted barley pricing, that is one big spike in August september (ouch).

 

Wow, interesting article. The only consolation is that with rising prices, more farmers will be inclined to plant hops and barley and stabalize the market.

I wonder if we are reaching market saturation for craft breweries.

 

As long as they leave enough hops and malt for me
If that was gone I'd be

 

I don't know if you all noticed, but the price of everything is rising rapidly. I suspect that homebrew ingredients won't rise as fast as finished beer prices (ignoring things like crop failures), simply because of the massive amounts of energy required to run a brewery. That's not to say we won't have to pay a higher cost per gal of beer in enegy at home...

 

The price of everything isn't rising as much as the dollar is going to $#!t.

 

Ain't that the truth!

 

Demand from Asia (particularly China) is also jacking up prices.

 

Wow, very interesting. Thanks for posting it.