Raising beer prices

[zman1]

I saw on the news today our foreign owned beer companies are going to continue to raise beer prices - Miller and Anheuser Busch.
I don't really drink beer that much, but I really don't like frilly imports. I guess Miller and Anheuser Busch are off the list now -frilly imports. Coors is 50% domestic. Are there any domestic beers out there? Guess micro-breweries...

 

[dragonzim]

They are crap anyway. If you want to drink good American beer look to your local microbrewery or any of the mid sized craft breweries like Rogue or Magic Hat.

 

[kjr_trig]

As long as Vodka stays steady, I'm ok.

 

[reefraff]

Yuengling beer
Sam Adams By the Boston Beer Company
Pabst is American owned but made by Miller (in America) which is foreign owned.
Other than that you are stuck with the micros or very small breweries. There are a lot of them around though.

 

[fishtaco]

The story gets even sadder though, here in Oregon that want to put even more sin tax on the local micro-breweries which we have a bunch of. Aside from raising the price, it will also do a lot of harm to one of the few industries that are still doing well in the state. Grrrrrr

Fishtaco

 

[roadie996]

I drink microbrewed beers anyways and all the really good import beers are already expensive enough... so whats a few more bucks?!

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by Fishtaco
http:///forum/post/3122541
The story gets even sadder though, here in Oregon that want to put even more sin tax on the local micro-breweries which we have a bunch of. Aside from raising the price, it will also do a lot of harm to one of the few industries that are still doing well in the state. Grrrrrr

Fishtaco

That is a really stupid idea. Then again based on what I have heard from a few people I know living there it is PAR for the course.

 

[dragonzim]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3122553
That is a really stupid idea. Then again based on what I have heard from a few people I know living there it is PAR for the course.

Yeah cause god forbid they try to tax the drinkers the same way that the smokers get taxed...

 

[fishtaco]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3122553
That is a really stupid idea. Then again based on what I have heard from a few people I know living there it is PAR for the course.

Yeah, I am waiting for them to figure out a way to hit the homebrewer's with some kind of tax since there are so many people doing that. Sounds crazy and paranoid I know, but they are taxing home-brewed bio-diesel these days. Meanwhile if you listen carefully you can hear the steady burp-burp-burp of the fermentation process coming from my garage.

Fishtaco

 

[dragonzim]

Originally Posted by Fishtaco
http:///forum/post/3122772
Meanwhile if you listen carefully you can hear the steady burp-burp-burp of the fermentation process coming from my garage.

Fishtaco
What are you making? I havent brewed in about a year but I usually go with Belgian style wheat beers. I have also been brewing Mead (honey wine) for about 15 years now..

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by kjr_trig
http:///forum/post/3122308
As long as Vodka stays steady, I'm ok.

You do know that Vodka is the premier choice of white-collar working alcoholics, don't you?

The next morning it doesn't reek as bad as other types - breath and weeping from pores.

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by DragonZim
http:///forum/post/3122589
Yeah cause god forbid they try to tax the drinkers the same way that the smokers get taxed...

Funny how the government subsidizes tobacco farmers then places a sin tax on the finished product

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3122832
Funny how the government subsidizes tobacco farmers then places a sin tax on the finished product

"A long and largely defeated line of presidents and officials who've tried to kill farm subsidies, a perk as deeply ingrained in a nation built on the Jeffersonian Agricultural Ideal as any other."

 

[t316]

Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3122828

You do know that Vodka is the premier choice of white-collar working alcoholics, don't you?

The next morning it doesn't reek as bad as other types - breath and weeping from pores.
He doesn't mind....All he has to do is swing some clubs the next morning and remember how to yell "four"

 

[fishtaco]

Originally Posted by DragonZim
http:///forum/post/3122788
What are you making? I havent brewed in about a year but I usually go with Belgian style wheat beers. I have also been brewing Mead (honey wine) for about 15 years now..
Right now I am doing blackberry wine since blackberries are free and it makes the price of a batch near zero except for the cost of sugar. Do beer with my buddy and so far my favorites have been wheat beers and kolsh. I am going to try to make some mead and also sake once I get done with the fruit wines for the year, but since I have lots of plums, that is going to be next.
Fishtaco

 

[kronos5]

Give me my old buddy Jack

 

[dragonzim]

Originally Posted by Fishtaco
http:///forum/post/3123086
Right now I am doing blackberry wine since blackberries are free and it makes the price of a batch near zero except for the cost of sugar. Do beer with my buddy and so far my favorites have been wheat beers and kolsh. I am going to try to make some mead and also sake once I get done with the fruit wines for the year, but since I have lots of plums, that is going to be next.
Fishtaco
I've got lots of good recipes for mead. Let me know if you need any...