[CGTRWK]

Malting barley topped $5 a bushel this year and is looking at $6. A bushel of barley is about 48 pounds.

One pound of barley makes about a gallon of beer, so a bushel of barley will make roughly 50 gallons - 400 pints.

So one pint of beer has about 1.2 cents worth of barley in it.

If they’re saying rising barley prices are going to drive a pint up $3.60, either they expect barley to be selling for $1,800 a bushel or they’re full of s—t.

[frogjerk]

I read that hops are going to get much more expensive and will not only affect commercial brewers but home brewers as well.

[Jokelahoma]

That one pound per gallon ratio is inaccurate, unless you like drinking beer that's roughly 2% alcohol. It takes more like a kilo of barley per gallon of average strength (~5.5% ABV) beer, or roughly twelve pounds per five gallons at average efficiency of usage.

Add to that that not all barley is suitable for brewing. Pricing for those varieties is now on the order of $1.50 a pound retail. Even adding in the fact that large brewers will get bulk rate discounts, you're looking at a pretty steep increase in barley prices.

So adding it all together, and loooking at it from a percentage standpoint, if your costs increase roughly 30-40%, then your prices are going to follow suit. Hardly seems out of line to me.