Posts Tagged: Beer and Economics
Ontario Beer Prices Go Up For No Good Reason At All
Posted by on Sunday, December 21, 2008 in - 4 comments
Liar, liar, pants on fire. That is what the Toronto Star says about the LCBO and Ontario's government anyway: • That 6.7 per cent increase in the floor price of a case, bottle deposit excluded, has nothing to do with supply-and-demand, production costs, overhead or distribution expenses. Instead …
BrewDog And Skull Splitter Face Humourless Tribunal
Posted by on Monday, November 17, 2008 in - 5 comments
Following up on a story we discussed last May, tomorrow's edition of The Independent tells the sad tale of how both BrewDog and the Orkney Brewery, makers of Skull Splitter, have had a ruling made against them by the shadowy Portman Group - described by The Independent as a self-regulating … read more »
When Should A Beer Blog Pay For Itself And The Beer?
Posted by on Saturday, November 8, 2008 in - 1 comment
Interesting to note that there are two comments today from pro-writing bloggers (ploggers?) mentioning how their connection to the blog connects directly or indirectly to income. Jack Curtain over at his Liquid Diet states: • ...I want to once again express my deep gratitude to everyone who sent …
Miller Leaves Market With Which It Had No Real Connection
Posted by on Monday, November 3, 2008 in - 5 comments
I am all for the global marketplace and beer being something to share around the planet. Heck, just today I secured a really dandy set of prizes for the 2008 photo contest from a noted Scottish brewery as well as a distributor of fine imports into North American - but are you really surprised by …
Beer Science: Beer Which Emits Light.
Posted by on Monday, October 27, 2008 in - 2 comments
The BBC has an interesting story today about the lengths to which macro-brewers have gone to figure out how to attract customers: • Green beer. Blue beer. Beer with the frothy 'head' in the middle of the glass, rather than at the top. Beer which emits light..."We've done lots of things which are …
What's Beer Worth In Papua New Guinea?
Posted by on Monday, September 22, 2008 in
No wonder folks say PNG. And what is someone called from there - it's probably Papa Guinenononan for all I know...or just Papan. But whatever it is, that nation's South Pacific Brewery of the National Capital District plays a huge economic role if this article is correct. It produces produced 53.3 …
In These Hard Times, Japan Is Losing Its Taste For Beer
Posted by on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 in - 2 comments
This economic hard times theory of mine is taking its lumps in Japan - along with the sales of beer. But perhaps there are good reasons for beer not to be the affordable luxury in some circumstances, as Australia's ABC News reports: • ...Japan's declining economy shifted corporate structure and …
Next, CAMRA To Blame Social And Economic Equality
Posted by on Sunday, September 14, 2008 in - 5 comments
My folks came out of industrial Scotland a little over fifty years ago now. Even in the 1950s the end was near for the shipyards where at least three generations of we folk had riveted and steering gear fitted their way to a pretty modest level of economic despair. • When their chances came …
Jamaica Refutes "Beer Is Affordable Luxury" Theory
Posted by on Saturday, September 13, 2008 in - leave a comment
So much for my very clever idea that beer rises to the top during tougher economic times if the situation at Red Stripe is anything to go by: • Red Stripe, the Jamaican brewers of beer, has blamed a soft economy that slowed demand and rising cost of inputs, including energy and raw materials … read more »
Apparently Beer Is, In Fact, The Affordable Luxury
Posted by on Saturday, September 6, 2008 in - 1 comment
Last December, I suggested that we may see a bump of sorts in beer sales in response to the recession in the US. In another in a series of events that prove that, yes, if enough monkeys used typewriters one could write sonnets, it appears I may well have been right as The Washington Post notes … read more »
