Beer Prices Come To A Head; Ethanol Blamed (DOH! Cost of barley rising as more corn is grown)

WGAL News 8 ^ | 7/6/07 | WGAL

[toddlintown]

More here;

http://beerinfood.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/green-movement-might-make-beer-drinkers-blue/

[I still care]

My boys buy all the milk for the family. They drink a lot of it (they’re cereal addicts) and they’ve been really complaining about the cost of it lately.

I just keep telling them, thank the environmentalists.

[TexasCajun]

No Food, eeer No Beer for Fuel!!

[TommyDale]

So the higher price of gas will be still higher, just shifted to another consumer product? Wow, isn’t this just special?

[Philistone]

NOW they’ve done it! Don’t even THINK about touching my beer!

[Sam's Army]

Well, Yeungling could just do like Bud and Miller and just add more water...

[Londo Molari]

This is going to anger “Joe-sixpack”

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

No War for Beer!

Bush’s fault.

[Abathar]

Yeah, one that is taxed even higher than gas if memory serves in certain states. I see a conspiracy theorist’s next government money grab headline coming up I bet...

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Ethanol has also recently been blamed for higher, milk, ice cream and pizza prices.

Also less high-end corn-fed steak.

[flashbunny]

the ethanol apologists will be along soon to tell us that:

- It’s not really ethanol that’s causing this
- you don’t understand what’s going on
- ethanol is a super fuel and anyone who says otherwise is a shill for big oil
- even if ethanol is doing this, it’s better than just giving money to farmers for not farming (which the government is still doing)
- even if ethanol is doing this, it’s better than giving money to those evil A-rabs in the middle east (even though they’re still getting their money because ethanol is at best energy neutral)

You bigots just don’t understand. Bow down to ADM and the ethanol lobby!!!! You’ll pay 200% more for your food and beer and you’ll like it, mister!

[elhombrelibre]

Yuengling is a regional brewery and the oldest brewery in the USA.

I personally think more people should take up home brewing so that they'd understand more about beer, enjoy the fruits of their labors, develop a more discerning palate, and save some money. Try Amarillo or Columbus hops. It's pretty easy to brew beer better than the big breweries who use adjuncts like rice in their beer and dumb down the hops to a nearly nonexistent flavor.

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks!

[gathersnomoss]

Switching back to red Australian wine. Screw CA and France.

[Beagle8U]

“Also less high-end corn-fed steak”

The price of pork will take a much higher jump because pork production takes far more corn than beef.

[edcoil]

No civilization in history ever survived by burning its food source.

[NormsRevenge]

I've noticed that milk price creep of recent too.. Darn.

Bread and cheese ain't cheap either.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It’s not just ethanol. Taxes on beer too from the states and feds.

[Billthedrill]

This could be series, even hugh. There's a beer crisis brewing...

OK, sorry, but somebody had to say it.

A home-brew ping.