Posts Tagged: Beer and Economics
What If I Posted A Series Of Posts For A Fee?
Posted by on Saturday, January 28, 2012 in - 48 comments
I have been quite impressed with the idea Evan had to post an essay on Amazon and ask a very modest fee for payment. I have also loved and supported Lew's idea for the TV series American Beer Blogger funded through Kickstarter. They've got me thinking. The price point and revenue streams for …
Totally Different To Drinking In The Garage At Your Home
Posted by on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in - leave a comment
I don't think I have ever seen the basic economics of running a bar actually hit a newspaper as a story. But here it is in New Zealand: • Wages, insurance, rent, rates, taxes, repairs and maintenance, cleaners, fixtures and fittings, heat, light and power, telephone, entertainment and security …
Book Review: The Economics Of Beer - Swinnen, ed.
Posted by on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 in - 3 comments
I bought this because Simon told me to. Simon said. • This book is a series of essays related to the 2009 conference of The Beeronomics Society. It says on its back cover that it "is the first economic analysis of the beer market and brewing industry" but that is just silly puffery. There have …
Where Would You Place The Tax Break For Beer?
Posted by on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 in - 5 comments
This is great news for folk who long for the day when low alcohol beer meant something tasty and reasonably priced: • The new rules on duty levels come into force on 1 October, with beers below 2.8 per cent ABV receiving a duty cut and beers above 7.5 per cent paying more. Dr Isaac Sheps, chief …
So, If You Were Looking For A Good Employer...
Posted by on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 in - 4 comments
While the little debate about whether Rogue has let craft brewing fans down by letting their employees down still simmers, one post from by own personal adopted man crush on a brewery, Beau's, points out exactly what I am looking for in a standard that I frankly do expect other brewers to try to …
Two Cautionary Tales Of Good Beer Bad Behaviour
Posted by on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 in - 16 comments
We like to ascribe so many positive things to good beer and those who love it we often forget that we make most of it up. We pretend brewers are rock stars. We pretend thinking about beer began (and sorta stopped) in the 1970s. But most of all we pretend people who make and enjoy craft beer are … read more »
Beer And Brewing As Economic Cornerstone
Posted by on Monday, June 20, 2011 in - leave a comment
This is interesting from NPR today - beer is not only recession proof but perhaps recession busting: • ...mounting evidence suggests that beer in particular, and the beer industry that surrounds it, may be as good for growth as excess sobriety. In some of the world's toughest investment climates …
NB Ceases Sales of Stockholm Syndrome Ale
Posted by on Friday, June 10, 2011 in - 1 comment
Remember that story out of the Canadian province of New Brunswick that it was going to brand it's own beer in part to dissuade locals from going to Maine or Quebec to get good beer at an honest price? Well - surprise, surprise - it's an utter failure: • In 2008, Dana Clendenning, the liquor …
Where There Is Beer There Is Peace Revisited
Posted by on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in - 12 comments
When I was growing up, Ethiopia was one of those nations with the hallmark of being incessantly near collapse. Civil war unending. The famine. Now there is beer: • The Beemnet bar is one of those places in Addis Ababa which attracts Ethiopians of all ages. Increasingly locals are going here for …
NY State's Wholesale Monopolies By Legal Fiat
Posted by on Sunday, May 1, 2011 in - 5 comments
Ah, so that is how it is done in NY state: • When the brewery tried to terminate its contract, the wholesaler sued under New York's alcoholic beverage control law—which binds brewers to one distributor within a marketing region once an agreement is in place—Brooklyn Brewery shelled out more than …
