St. Arnolds Brewery to dump 10,000 Gallon of their newest beer

[thezepster]

Just read this in Froth!: "Astoundingly perhaps, fully 60% of the capital expediture for commercial beer production and distribution is due to packaging; only 20% is due to brewing the beer."

Very difficult decision to dump that much beer but it could have been a lot worse if they decided to bottle it.

 

[rico567]

$10k - $15k to make that much beer.

.....but don't forget this is a business, and whatever it cost to dump that beer, it's a tax deduction.

 

[jaginger]

Excellent point Rico; so more like $6,500 - $10k after tax cost.

In reality, the economic cost is the amount of the forgone sales, less bottling and other intermediary costs to take the brew from its current state to the shelves (including taxes, of course.) But we're just spitballing anyway, so the above figure is good enough for me.