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Drink Tue Sep 25 2007
That PBR may cost more in the near future.
In an interesting bit of trickle-down economics, the rising cost of gasoline is raising the cost of beer. With the demand for corn-based ethanol, more and more farmers are planting this cash crop as opposed to barley, a key ingredient in beer. In Germany, a less than stellar barley harvest, estimated at about half of regular production, has raised the price of the crop 40 percent in the last two years, adversely affecting the smaller import beer cost as well. Barley isn’t the only thing that is raising the cost of your favorite ale — with higher transportation and energy costs as well as a rise in materials such as aluminum and glass bottles, everything is having some sort of effect.
