Posts Tagged: Inputs, Price and Value
Great News! Grain Prices Are Starting To Drop!
Posted by on Saturday, April 5, 2008 in - 3 comments
Great news in all the gloom and doom about the inevitability of higher beer prices for ever and ever amen - grain prices are dropping: • “...speculators are getting out of the market and that prompted the heavy selling that pushed canola down sharply as it hit its lowest level in over 8 weeks …
Investigative Reporting On Beer Price Gouging
Posted by on Friday, March 7, 2008 in - 2 comments
A quick note on this day of the Session recommending highly Andy Crouch's post about price gouging that is taking place at one establishment in response to the wholesale increase in certain cost inputs for beer. A fine piece of that rarest of birds, real beer journalism.
Craft Beer And Substantial Equivalence
Posted by on Saturday, March 1, 2008 in - leave a comment
Market Saturation and Substantial Equivalence Illustrated • The tough thing about the hop and malt price bump is that it comes at a time of US consumer uncertainty. Something of a double whammy. Add to this the idea that I have come across recently to express something I have thought about for …
Again With The Beer Input Grid: Resistence Is Not Futile
Posted by on Sunday, February 24, 2008 in - 4 comments
There has been some odd resistance to my humble proposal that craft brewers might consider taking steps to control their owns means of cost input production in the face of sharp input inflation which, the more I think about it, the more it strikes me as fundamentally anti-capitalistic. So, in that …
How Much Land Do You Need To Get Off The Beer Grid?
Posted by on Friday, February 22, 2008 in - 12 comments
What the heck is the beer grid? Well, if you think of those nutty people that put up a windmill to feed their electrical needs in the early 80s and who, as it turns out, paid off their capital costs in the late 90s, isn't the beer grid like that? Consider this brewer's plight: • “Local brewery …
My Deep And Witty Analysis Of The Big Hop Giveaway!
Posted by on Saturday, February 16, 2008 in - 2 comments
My computer ate it. It was a virtual unified theory of beer blogging, an apology draped in an accusation resting on a question with its feet up on satisfaction. Brilliant. Gone. In sum: I didn't like their variety packs, the special glass, Utopia, the '90's triple bock or their white-like thing …
Are You An Utter Fool? Well, Do I Have A Beer For You!
Posted by on Friday, January 25, 2008 in - 6 comments
The blithering idiot sector of the snob class of beer git has now been confirmed as a market to which one can...market: • “Carlsberg A/S ads say it's "probably the best beer in the world." At $400 a bottle, it's now the most expensive. The brewer, Scandinavia's biggest, introduced a beer today …
Inputs, Price and Value: Beer Labels
Posted by on Monday, January 21, 2008 in - 3 comments
Three red triangles, two of which are on Bass labels • You may have noticed to the left that one of the patrons of our work here at A Good Beer Blog is WorldLabel.com, a supplier of labels to small breweries, home brewers and others. We got to talking about the work they do and I suggested that …
Cost Inputs: Do We Buy The Import Or Lobby Our Local Brewer?
Posted by on Thursday, January 10, 2008 in - 2 comments
Is this how it works? • “Shelton has brought in some bottles, but he wants to start importing fresh casks at regular intervals. He realizes they will be a tough sell. "When American beer drinkers spend more money on a beer," he says, "they want more alcohol. It's a real challenge to sell …
Cost Inputs: Is Brewing Under License A Con?
Posted by on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 in - 11 comments
We've talked a bit about brewing under license. A year and a half ago we undertook the historic PBR v. PBR challenge under which the US brew was tested against the version brewed in Canada under license by Sleeman - it was a draw. In 2004, I even make a submission in the face of a pending beer …
