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Archive - Apr 10, 2008

Reason: The Biofuel Brew Ha-Ha

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 7:26pm

It was bad enough when the corn biofuel debacle drove up gas and food prices, but now the biofuel debacle is messing with my beer, as chronicled in this article on Reason.

Actually, I already knew this -- the my local brewery, Weyerbacher, had already explained how ethanol was driving up their costs by increasing demand for corn, leading to a shortage of less profitable hops.