Posts Tagged: Inputs, Price and Value
What's The Difference Between Cheap and Good Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, March 20, 2011 in - 2 comments
So, it's all about value this weekend for me. Mainly because I haven't been in the mood for beer. Bought a bike. Made birthday dinner for Mom. Spring cleaning. Can't be much gooderer than that. Then I see this story and, again, I wonder... except today I wondered as I biked: • A budget-priced …
Would I Buy Beer With A Discount Voucher?
Posted by on Saturday, March 19, 2011 in - 1 comment
I am a little worried. Maybe Mr. B is right and my choice of a question or rather questions - or it is subject or rather subjects - for the next edition of The Session is way too broad. But then I read about this and it gets me thinking: • People will be able to buy a special £10 set of vouchers …
Prices Set To Soar To Point Well Below 2008
Posted by on Monday, March 7, 2011 in - leave a comment
We forget things. Things like what things cost us. Things are expensive now, we say. But we often fail to keep the receipts around it seems - at least at the wholesale level: • Poor weather in Canada, the world's largest malting barley exporter, and in Australia have cut supplies of barley short …
Sign Of The End Times: A Call For Higher Beer Prices
Posted by on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 in - 3 comments
I like Troy and Cass as much as anyone and consider them a two-headed monster that has pushed and pulled and tugged Ontario into the good beer revolution as much as anyone else in recent years. But I can't go along with Troy's approval of Cass's post entitled "Bring On the Expensive Beer": • Not …
Sunday Beer News As The Jets Play Pittsburgh
Posted by on Sunday, January 23, 2011 in - 2 comments
Not like I am really thinking too deeply today. The AFC championship just began after the third string Chicago quarterback made something out of a dud in the NFC game. I'd like to say that I'm sitting around having a beer but I don't really have beer on a Sunday when there's a tie and hard shoes … read more »
Speaking of Money, Let's Hear It For Price Fluctuations!
Posted by on Thursday, January 20, 2011 in - leave a comment
An interesting story in the Guelph Mercury about the implications of the strong Canadian dollar on the domestic booze marketplace. And there is good news for beer lovers: • Last year, six-packs of Southern Tier IPA saw their price at the LCBO pared from $13.75 to $12.75. The LCBO approached …
How Much Would You Happily Pay For A Pint?
Posted by on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 in - 16 comments
OK, we all know we have no idea what a pint means. I have one system that says 12 ounces is enough, another demands 16 oz and the one Mark Dredge was talking about understands it to mean a full 20. Here in Canada, we call a 12 ounce bottle a "pint" but we get do 20 ounce pints in pubs too so …
Getting Into The Craft Brew Business Shouldn't Be Hard
Posted by on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 in - 5 comments
You know I like Andy Crouch. I like Andy. He and I agree on so many things that I can't believe it. Then he goes and writes this and I get all pffttwzzatchamacallit!!! • With all of this said, many great breweries, including Dogfish Head, started on an extremely small scale and there are many …
Alberta Adds Tax To Stop Kids Drinking Utopias
Posted by on Sunday, December 19, 2010 in - 3 comments
That seems to be the logic - that super strong beer is the new highway to hell. The Government of Alberta is adding a surcharge to stop kids and other sorts of vulnerable Albertans from drinking a class of beer they, frankly, never intended to drink... or, more likely, were even aware existed …
To What End, The Traveling Beer Writer's Argument?
Posted by on Saturday, December 4, 2010 in - 7 comments
I was shaking my head at another piece of Roger Protz's writing last night. This time it was a bit on Chimay. I like Chimay as much as anyone so my concerns do not relate to the brewer - but you will recall that Mr. Protz is hardly monastic himself. He has a temper and a lack of discretion when it …
