Shortage of beer ingredients may mean higher prices

The Seattle Times ^ | 11-09-2007 | Shannon Dininny

[BigTex5]

Small brewers from Australia to Oregon face the daunting prospect of tweaking their recipes or experimenting less with new brews thanks to a worldwide shortage of one key beer ingredient and rising prices for others.

[knews_hound]

Zima.

Just screams GAY.



Richard thinks its FABULOUS tough.

Cheers,

knewshound

[ShadowDancer]

The name takes on a whole new meaning in modern times.

Must you corrupt everything?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

The shoe fits!

[Petronski]

Wait . . . Commercial beers still use hops and malted barley?

[Clint N. Suhks]

It tastes night and day better than Heineken in bottles IMHO. The only draw back is the size. They should redesign it to fit in a refrigerator more easily, and I have a Sub Zero.

[ShadowDancer]

Or boot.

[jrd]

I make my own beer...it does not need all the hops I have also grown hops for my beer all your classic beers only have a small amount of hops. the micro brewers started this hops nonsense

[AFreeBird]

Sub Zero doesn't have adjustable shelves?

And yes, it has a very good taste, way better than draught and I suspect the consistent, tight fine head makes it better than bottle because bottle to bottle is different, and drinking from bottle doesn't normally produce a "proper" head, but the price is a little too steep right now.

[tubebender]

Can ya substitute surplus tobacco leaves for hops?

[Swiss]

**Wait until E85 is mandated by a ‘rat-controlled federal administration.**

Well unless something changes it is nearly impossible to replace 85% of our gasoline with ethanol. But right now we are exporting about as much corn as we are using as ethanol. The Corn and Soybean farmers is getting good prices. My state has the 10% ethanol additive requirement and I don’t see a massive increase in cars breaking down. There is plenty of land that is not in production because of set aside or other government programs. As far as I can tell the farmers can meet the 10% ethanol goals without food prices increasing more than they would of for inflation (Some others can point out that adjusted for inflation most ag prices is still a bargain)

Prices for all commodities is rising some more than the prices for farm commodities. I am with you right now about E-85 but the doom and gloom about current production isn’t playing out. If our country had about 5% to 10% of our transportation fuels replaced by biofuels then we could tell Chavez or Iran to shove it.

If we drilled for oil in Alaska and off the coasts as well and build nuclear power and convert coal to oil then I think we will be in great shape.

[SouthTexas]

You’d think when I quit drining there would have been a surplus!

[hophead]

My reply was a joke from the Ebonics dictionary. You need a few more drinks to lighten up!

[SouthTexas]

I quit drinkin’, didn’t quit smokin’. Keep you hands off my tobacco!

[Fester Chugabrew]

UNNNNGH!

[Trailerpark Badass]

Damn you George Bush!!!

[ReformedBeckite]

Now its time for my real Job--getting loaded!

[mamelukesabre]

I make my own beer and I kinda like schlitz and pbr. Does that make me a sellout? I used to drink falstaff occasionally, but sadly it is gandhi.

[avid]

Currently happening here in Germany as well. The brewers have the exact same arguments: Less wheat because the Chinese buy the market empty & biofuel production and higher prices for glass and aluminium. They even increased the price by the same 10% and will increase more next year.

International cartell?

[steelyourfaith]

~~ AGW™ ping~~

[raybbr]

Plenty of water available...