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What happens when you use about twice the malt and as many as five times the hops of a mass-market brew, like Budweiser or Miller High Life and commodity prices go up?<\/p>\nWhat happens when you use about twice the malt and as many as five times the hops of a mass-market brew, like Budweiser or Miller High Life and commodity prices go up?<\/p>\n
The Wall Street Journal<\/em> joins the conversation about looming higher prices for craft beer that’s been going on in multiple beer blogs the past month.<\/p>\n It appears the Journal has posted the story in its free area<\/a> (I hope I have that figured out) so just a couple of highlights – since I’ve written about it here, while Lew<\/a>, Rick<\/a>, Jay<\/a> and others have reported much that’s in the Journal.<\/p>\n – “The cost increases have been the largest we’ve ever faced, both in barley and in hops,” says Boston beer (Samuel Adams) founder Jim Koch.<\/p>\n – Larger brewers won’t be forced to increase prices as much – in part because of buying power and in part because they use less malt and hops.<\/p>\n – Malt prices are up 40% to 80%, hops prices 20% to 100%.<\/p>\n – “I think there’s going to be some brewers out there,” says Dogfish Craft Brewery brewmaster Andy Tveekrem, “if they haven’t looked that far ahead, that actually might run out of malt or hops<\/strong>, which would be a catastrophe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What happens when you use about twice the malt and as many as five times the hops of a mass-market brew, like Budweiser or Miller High Life and commodity prices go up? The Wall Street Journal joins the conversation about looming higher prices for craft beer that’s been going on in multiple beer blogs the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-5x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10273,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/10273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}