{"id":1525,"date":"2007-11-21T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2007-11-21T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T20:30:22","slug":"on-beer-price-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"On Beer Price Pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us of taste and distinction, who enjoy our beer imported and dark, these coming days will be dark indeed &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/11\/20\/beer_price_warning\/\">Booze industry experts have issued a chilling warning that the British pint could hit \u00a34 a pop &#8211; a price hike provoked by crap weather which has forced up the price of hops<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And this: &#8220;To underline the dire state of affairs, Scottish &#038; Newcastle &mdash; responsible for three of Europe&#8217;s top ten beers including Foster&#8217;s and Kronenbourg &mdash; today confirmed price increases in 2008 &#8216;way above the rate of inflation.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad enough that the President&#8217;s insane economic policies have led to a hellishly weak dollar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=771\">making Guinness more expensive <i>anyway<\/i><\/a>.  And now, this.<\/p>\n<p>In the immortal words of Bart Simpson, &#8220;This both sucks and blows.&#8221; :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us of taste and distinction, who enjoy our beer imported and dark, these coming days will be dark indeed &mdash; Booze industry experts have issued a chilling warning that the British pint could hit \u00a34 a pop &#8211; a price hike provoked by crap weather which has forced up the price of hops.&#8221;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1525\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Beer Price Pressures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[327,489,490],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-beer","tag-economics","tag-guinness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}