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MinnPost on the hop shortage

January 14, 2008, 10:50am

“Price for hops used to make beer is going up, and you know what that means” by Mark Neuzil

Mark was nice enough to call upon me as well as Dustin from Brau Brothers and Peter Ausenhus from Worth Brewing in Iowa.

Category Posted by ryan in mnbeer.com, general beer, breweries

6 Responses to “MinnPost on the hop shortage”

David Berg wrote on January 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pm:

I find it interesting that everyone is talking about the price of hops, yet no one is talking about the price of malt. The hop market had a lot of things going against it this year. It will correct itself. High malt prices, however, are here to stay.

ryan wrote on January 14th, 2008 at 1:55 pm:

I’ve mentioned it with everyone I’ve talked to. It seems that malt only gets a sentence or two tops in most articles, if that.

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Dustin Brau wrote on January 15th, 2008 at 7:44 am:

malt just isn’t as sexy.

Mark Neuzil wrote on January 15th, 2008 at 8:50 am:

The price of malt is also an interesting story. My impression from talking to the experts was that the hops issue was somewhat unique because of the number of hops farmers exiting the business, while barley and wheat farmers are in it to stay.
The economic news gets even more interesting, as corn hit $5.12/bushel yesterday…

David Berg wrote on January 15th, 2008 at 12:10 pm:

Perhaps feed barley farmers are in it to stay; malting barley is a different topic. With the current prices of corn, wheat, and feed barley, why would a farmer risk planting malting barley?

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