Beer Prices On Rise (now we're REALLY 'screwn'!)

[Breeze54]

Beer Prices On Rise

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/money/15998721/detail.html

Brewers Blame Rising Production Costs On Price Increase - (Huh?) :shrug:

UPDATED: 6:51 pm EDT April 25, 2008

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. --

The cost of grains and other ingredients is driving up the cost of beer.

NewsCenter 5's Lynn Jolicoeur reported that at John Harvard's in Framingham,
a pint of ale costs $4.75, but two years ago it cost just $4.25.

"I enjoy having a beer now and then, and that's pretty much not going to change
anything for me," said Winthrop's Scott Beuoy.

Brewers blame the price increase on a crop shortage.

"It's the price of grain. Farmers probably are getting more money to grow corn
as opposed to barley for the brewing industry," brewer Gerry O'Connell said.

On top of that, the hops supply is anything but hopping.

"Our cost per-barrel-produced has gone from $38 a barrel to some products being
almost $95 a barrel," said John Tarnuzzer, of John Harvard's.

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Beer prices are also up in stores. Sam Adams Brewery said it recently had a price
increase of 5 percent on all of its products.

BUMMER!!!! :P :toast:

[poppysgal]

1. Now they have quit preaching

and gone to meddling.:toast:

[Breeze54]

2. LOL...How will we get through this "recession" without BEER?

:P

:banghead:

:toast:

I better get to the packie asap but I don't drink beer much!

Is sugar going up too? Now that would screw with my cocktails! :(

[alarimer]

3. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Franklin was SO right on that point.

Now I guess we are supposed to be miserable as well as broke. It's not fair.

[Breeze54]

4. I know! It isn't fair!

:P

I guess you could brew your own?

I'm sure people will still buy beer.

What's that old saying about when times are tough?

Something like,

'there's always job security when times are tough, if you have a job in health care, a food store or a bar!' :P

[alarimer]

9. I know a few people who brew their own.

I am not sure it's as cost effective yet compared to buying it.

[poppysgal]

5. price per barrel

Pick a barrel, any barrel-let's weigh it out now, oil-beer, oil-beer, oh my God-beer won, I'll just become a drunk survivalist or something.:toast:

[Breeze54]

6. I didn't think of that... "price per barrel"

It's ironic or something like that. :P

I can walk to go get beer and use my gas $ for beer instead! ;)

:toast:

[SpiralHawk]

7. Gav a Hansett

[Breeze54]

8. lmao!

Thanks! :P

:toast:

[poppysgal]

10. this is it

and I really mean it this time. Enough is enough. I am calling a halt to all of this nonsense right now. We need our beer. It's important, it is what gets us through our work week, It numbs us to the reality that we have been lied to, sent to war, taxed to death, have stupid people running our nation and now not only can we not afford to drive to work (and can't afford not to) but the few bucks we do manage to earn are worth less by Friday than they were when we started work on Monday. The one and only one thing that we have left is beer. Although I may only be able to imbibe during Happy Hour on Friday afternoon and may only be able to afford Pabst Blue Ribbon-I will draw my line in the sand here and now and state unequivocally that they (the establishment) cannot now or ever take my beer, so there.:toast:

[Breeze54]

11. "Not from my cold dead hands!!"

:P