Those of you that enjoy a decent pint or two every now and again, get ready to pay more for your favourite tipple. This from Harpers reports on the increasing costs of basic raw materials that has already hit the UK's breweries, with Barley increasing in price by 40% and Hops by 100% this year.
The piece, perhaps rather too pointedly, firmly lays the blame directly at the door of climate change. It seems that you can blame anything on climate change nowadays, but with the cost of diesel also going up by 12p/litre over the last 12 months too, I reckon we could be paying £3 a pint for a decent beer by the start of next year!
2 comments:
Frankly, of most things lately trying to convince the 'great apathetic peons' (hey, acronym: the GAP generation!) that the world is nigh, this may have a better chance than most!
You're probably right! There's nothing that the drinking man notices more than when there's less cash in his pocket after a Saturday night out on the beer!
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