OK. Purely selfish entry here.
Decreasing the supply of oil in this country by not opening up new drilling fields and building new refineries has caused the US to explore using more ethanol in place of gasoline. This has caused the price of corn to go up. Farmers are planting more corn because they can make more money than with other crops.
So the supply of barley has gone down, and therefore the price of malt has gone up.
This means that it costs a lot more to make homebrew AND the cost of beer has gone up.
I'm not happy about this. First 'they' make it more expensive to trail my sailboat to out of town regattas, and now 'they' make it more expensive to brew beer.
What's next? Taking away Christmas? Cancelling Thanksgiving? Electing Hillary Clinton?
Posted by Bob at November 11, 2007 08:06 PM