Posts Tagged: Inputs, Price and Value
NY State Picks An Odd Time To Give A Grant
Posted by on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in - 8 comments
I live in a border town and follow upstate New York news daily. These days, it's all about cuts to programs for the vulnerable, cuts to colleges and new fees for things like a new license plate whether you need one or not. But there was money for one grant: • The state government last week …
Quebec: Noire D'Atwater, Au Maître Brasseur, Laval
Posted by on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 in - 1 comment
750 ml for $4.79 Canadian. How would that rate on a Beer Price Index (BPI)? Stan gave me the nod about the BPI. I think it needs to have a BAI factored into it - Beer Advocate Index - as this brew got a "D" from the one Advoctonian who rated it. I don't know if I have had a "D" rated beer before …
It's About The Relative Value of Relative Value
Posted by on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 in - 2 comments
Here's how it happened. Greg asked a very good question about buying a rhubarb lambic upon which I jibed to which Mr. Beaumont commented and then posted in full. I, of course, couldn't keep out of it myself when I added this: • I entirely agree with you on that… for the most part. It’s just that …
Beer Prices Go Throught The Albertan Roof
Posted by on Thursday, May 21, 2009 in - 4 comments
Here is an odd phenomenon: beer prices have taken off in Alberta over the last year, one of the provinces in Canada which has fairly well entrenched privatized retail beer sales: • The price of Alberta beer is now higher than in any province, a complete reversal from April 2008, when this …
Beer and Value: Let Us Blame The Middleman
Posted by on Monday, May 18, 2009 in - 3 comments
You know when we talk about beer and value we talk about the price of hops, whether only snob appeal justifies a forty-three dollar price point and that sort of stuff but we don't really get at the real issue: middlemen. A report today out of the UK's Business and Enterprise Committee highlights …
Beer Class Warfare At Fenway And On The Shelf?
Posted by on Saturday, May 9, 2009 in - 2 comments
I like the Red Sox at lot and I like going to baseball games, too, though admittedly at a much more modest level for the most part. Modest like the Watertown Wizards or, you know, the Toronto Blue Jays. Having learned my lesson from the wallet lightening I once took at an Ottawa Senators game, I …
Sour Beer Studies: La Roja, Jolly Pumpkin, Michigan
Posted by on Friday, April 24, 2009 in - 4 comments
[Ed.: Note the comments where Greg from Allagash corrects some of my less than stellar observations. But check here for thoughts on my questionable taste.] • Have you ever had a surprise disappointment? I got a bunch of Allagash brews last year, stashed them to great benefit and loved them all …
New Brunswick: Pick Your Gouge - Lager Or Light
Posted by on Saturday, April 18, 2009 in - 5 comments
Following up on earlier stories, the New Brunswick Liquor Corporation - a branch of government - has apparently been successful in its drive to dumb down the local beer market while maintaining its own inflated profit margins through the introduction of what is laughably called a "discount" beer …
Beer's Properties Makes For Beer's Profities
Posted by on Monday, April 6, 2009 in - 2 comments
I was quite ready to scoff at today's article in the London Free Press on InBev... or is it AmBev... or maybe now just BevBev's... Canadian operations and their version of a beer school but the point on the economics of properly handling your kegs is interesting: • "In a typical bar, five to 10 …
So Where Are The Brewing Input Prices In March '09?
Posted by on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in - 6 comments
A while ago, we were all concerned. We were talking at a manic pace about craft beer prices going through the roof due to the rising cost of hops, malt and fuel. It was the talk of the town a year and a half ago. In October 2007, I asked the musical question "Are Craft Beer Prices Too Low?" and …
