Posts Tagged: Inputs, Price and Value
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 …
Are Lower Taxes The Route To Quality Session Beers?
Posted by on Monday, January 12, 2009 in - 2 comments
At the first of the month, Lew asked the question "Is 2009 The Year of The Session?" As with every year, I sure hope so. I see that I have far too few posts tagged in the category Low Strength Beer and of those, only a couple are about beers that have really caught my imagination over the last …
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 »
So What Exactly Is A Session Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, August 31, 2008 in - 14 comments
A couple of articles I read this past week got me thinking again about that spiny question of what exactly constitutes a session beer. There was the last Tuesday's article in The New York Times by Betsy Andrews entitled "The Other Extreme: Low-Alcohol Beers" but I also got a copy of the summer …
More On The Irish Price Of Malting Barley
Posted by on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 in - 8 comments
Ireland's beer blogger The Beer Nut noted it in yesterday's comments but the details are quite astounding as the maltsters for Guinness's owner Diageo are proposing a 20% cut in the price they will pay for the 2008 crop: • A spokesman for Greencore Malt, which supplies Diageo, said grain prices …
So Where Are Barley Prices Headed Now?
Posted by on Monday, August 11, 2008 in - 7 comments
I don't know what it is like where you are, but here in the rainy eastern end of the Great Lakes it's the year of the bumper crop, with Ontario's wheat crop set to be a record. That got me thinking about last spring's talk about price increases for brewers. Here are some stories harvested from …
Return Of The "Are You An Utter Fool?" Post
Posted by on Monday, June 2, 2008 in - 5 comments
Apparently the hunt for the next big thing in beer - you know, like "sustainable" or "heritage" or "retro cheap ass" - still includes those who think luxury for the sake of inducing mere expenditure is the way to go. And today we look to the Australians for the next example of vendors who think …
Wired's Good Summary Of Price Inputs Got Me Thinking
Posted by on Sunday, May 11, 2008 in - 2 comments
It's just a short article in Wired but it provides a good summary of where we are with the hop and barley price jumps and gets me thinking about that other elephant in the room - value: • “"My jaw hit the floor when I saw the price," Ansari says. And next year, he'll have to reformulate his … read more »
