Hops at $15 a pound are a few pennies a bottle.
The cost of beer is in the taxes, the capital equipment, the labor, and the distribution. On a personal drinking scale, the raw ingredients are so cheap as to be essentially free.
A $4 price hike at the tap may well happen, but that isn’t because of biofuels and farmers aren’t going to see but a few pennies of it.
Ontario's LCBO has scads of English beers. I notice a real eye catcher for the usual suspects. It is a whopping plastic bottle of Wells Ale. I have had no luck in the measure though. I have my supplies in for the visitors tomorrow, cannot be bothered to go down and check. The price? $8.95 Canadian dollars. Has to be 40 ounces but I stand to be corrected.
I would think that they have an eye on a certain customer. Why not? (laughs).Premium English beers 500 ml (16 oz up) are only $2.25 and as high as $3.45 Canadian. Halve that and you get the value in pounds.
Neither here nor there but Marstons brewed a "Pedigree" beer for $3.45.(1.7 pounds sterling). The store sold em' all out, once the tasters got to work. Bottom line - they cannot ship this stuff to Ontario for even less than store price and NOT make a profit.