Posts Tagged: Inputs, Price and Value
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 - 7 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 • In a discussion last month over at the Beer Advocate on pricing and the inputs that go into setting them, in response to my comments about packaging costs, Lew Bryson commented • “I'm not against learning more about what's in a beer, how …
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 …
One Step Towards Both Eco-Friendly Brewing And Good Value
Posted by on Thursday, December 20, 2007 in - 2 comments
More on the decisions that go into making your beer tonight as I noticed this story just now about a brewery that is simply not playing up its wonderfully eco-friendly ways on its own website, Barrington Brewery of Great Barrington, Massachusetts: • “"The first thing that we looked at as far as …
Craft Or Kraphtt: Sam Adams Scotch Ale, Boston Beer, MA, USA
Posted by on Monday, December 10, 2007 in - 3 comments
Stan was rightly giving me grief the other day or at least a lesson in life when I spoke of the Sam Adams line of beers. I didn't mean to be mean and I am a delicate flower in the face of such dressings down - but, as you all know, I am working with what I am thinking about beer pricing and value …
The Baltimore Sun On Craft Beer Pricing
Posted by on Friday, November 30, 2007 in - 5 comments
The Baltimore Sun has a regular beer column by Rob Kasper and this week it has picked up the question of price in this column called "How much is too much for a beer": • “I have mixed feelings about these top-dollar prices. On the one hand, it is a sign that beer is taking a step up in the …
