{"id":312,"date":"2007-10-31T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/wordpress\/?p=312"},"modified":"2008-03-15T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T21:02:31","slug":"a-shaky-market-for-hops-challenges-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/a-shaky-market-for-hops-challenges-brewers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shaky Market for Hops Challenges Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/ianpost.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This article is a couple of months old, but it still worth posting because of its relevance to the current climate in the brewing industry. It talks about the hop &#8220;crisis&#8221;, and what brewers are doing about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Soaring hop prices are also cutting into brewers&#8217; profits. &#8220;Hops are easily up 20 percent over last year,&#8221; says Sisson, &#8220;and that&#8217;s if you&#8217;re buying under contract. If you have to scrounge for hops on the spot market, that can add another 10 to 15 percent to your costs.&#8221;One long-term solution is for mom-and-pop brewers to make their own deals with mom-and-pop hop growers. Victory dodged a bullet that way, Barchet says. The brewery signed a contract with Georg Bentele, a German farmer, to buy 10,000 kilos of hops a year (one-third of his crop) over the next six years at a locked-in price.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article can be read in its&#8217; entirety <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/pdfs\/hopschallengesbrewers.pdf');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/pdfs\/hopschallengesbrewers.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is a couple of months old, but it still worth posting because of its relevance to the current climate in the brewing industry. It talks about the hop &#8220;crisis&#8221;, and what brewers are doing about it. Soaring hop prices are also cutting into brewers&#8217; profits. &#8220;Hops are easily up 20 percent over last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ianpost58.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}