“Everything’s going up.”<\/p>\n
Bill Night updates his Portland Beer Price Index.<\/a> “Two pubs raised their draft prices this quarter, and the six-pack and bomber prices are not surprisingly continuing an upward trend.” <\/p>\n I’m pretty sure it’s not just happening in Portland,Oregon.<\/p>\n * Speaking of beer prices,<\/strong> SaveOnBrew.com<\/a> is an interesting notion but right now appears to be more useful when shopping for a deal on Stag<\/em> rather than where to find Goose Island IPA<\/em> and how much it might cost. What direction will it grow?<\/p>\n * The neighborhood pub.<\/strong> Several worthy ideas at the KC Beer Blog<\/a> and one comment that I have to pass along: “I haven’t met a bar that managed to infect the bottles yet.” But they can subject them to lighting that skunks the beer inside (even brown bottles) or fail to rotate stock or otherwise keep it fresh.<\/p>\n * The Farmery<\/a><\/strong> will be Canada’s first estate brewery. Challenges ahead, as nicely summarized in the Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>: “They’re betting the farm on estate brewery.”<\/p>\n * A press release announcing a new brewery for Los Angeles, Golden Road Brewing<\/strong> (actually in North Atwater Village), explains it will be laid out in a three-building campus. “The distinctive primary colored buildings are easy to spot, just off Interstate 5 and Highway 134. The blue building will be production, the red building will be barrel room & storage and the yellow building will be for offices, on-site sales, and eventually a pub and beer garden.” It’s supposed to open in the fall. Personally, I figure if you are going to go to the trouble of color coding your buildings you might as well have them change with the seasons.<\/p>\n *Merchant du Vin<\/strong>,<\/a> one of the first distributors of specialty beers to launch a web site (like maybe pre-Google), has redesigned its site. Pretty easy to find the basic specs on any of it’s beers. More impressive: “Find Our Beer” actually works.<\/p>\n * Yuengling wasn’t already in Ohio?<\/strong> That’s a bet I would have lost. Apparently Ohio residents still drive to the Pennsylvania border<\/a> to buy the beer.<\/p>\n * Just plain stupid.<\/strong> Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery in Ontario claims Alpha-fornication<\/em> contains “2500 IBUs (International Bitterness Units)<\/a> and 13.3% ABV.” That’s about 2,400 bitterness units beyond possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Everything’s going up.” Bill Night updates his Portland Beer Price Index. “Two pubs raised their draft prices this quarter, and the six-pack and bomber prices are not surprisingly continuing an upward trend.” I’m pretty sure it’s not just happening in Portland,Oregon. * Speaking of beer prices, SaveOnBrew.com is an interesting notion but right now appears … 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":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1LK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804","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=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6829,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions\/6829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}