Hop Crisis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did any of you see the hop shortage article in the Omaha World Herald yesterday? Apparently hop prices have gone up about 8-fold lately. I remember hearing there was fear the price of beer was going to go up. This was a while back though, not too long after that fire that burnt down a huge hop warehouse somewhere in the pacific northwest. After not noticing any changes I kinda forgot about it, but it looks like it's going to happen. The big boys aren't really going to be affected, but seeing as how I pretty much only drink ale's anymore, I guess I'll be forking out some extra cash.

Fortunately there hasn't been much change in price for homebrew kits yet. Kirk's kits went up a couple of bucks recently, but that only amounts to about 4cents a beer. If homebrew prices stay the same and store bought prices go up I might have to get another keg.