WSJ article on skyrocketing cost of beer.

[kram]

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).

 

[Nyxator]

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.

 

[niquejim]

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

 

[Sea]

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...

 

[Buford]

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

 

[EdWort]

A barrel of craft brew Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, for example, has about twice the malt and as many as five times the hops of a mass-market brew, like Budweiser or Miller High Life.

Ain't that the truth!

 

[mr x]

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

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

 

[Kubed]

Wow, very interesting. Thanks for posting it.