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Challenges to the Beer Industry
The health of the food supply after a heavy biofuels mandate
By: Michael Hotz & Rob Sladek
Renewable Fuels Impacts
• Crops for biofuels get subsidized to the Crops for biofuels get subsidized to the equivalent rate of $24.60 per acreequivalent rate of $24.60 per acre
• Barley production down 5.5% just in 2007, likely to continue
Climate
• Bad Weather– Yield 1.6 million tons 1.2 million tons– 270 Euros/ton 385 Euros/ton – Poor Quality
• Early Germination• Off Taste• Reduced performance
• Unable to Switch to Rice or Corn
Beer Law 1516
Germany can only use four ingredients in their beer making process
• Malted Grain• Hops • Yeast • Water
First used to stop buying competition from bread and beer– Neuzeller Kloster Brewery
(Black Beer Controversy)
Inflation
• Electricity +12.4%
• Dairy Products +23.0%
• Oil Food Products +42.7%
• Rice and Cereals +26.9%
Types of German Beer• Altbier (old beer) • Berliner Weisse (Berlin wheat beer) • Bock (strong lager) • Dortmunder Export • Dunkel (dark beers) • Gose (a distinctive Leipzig style) • Hefeweizen (Bavarian wheat beer) • Kristallweizen (filtered Bavarian wheat beer) • Kölsch (Koelsch) (a very pale ale from Cologne/Köln) • Märzen (Bavarian "March Beer" — the original Oktoberfest beer) • Münchner Helles (Munich light lager) • Pils (AKA Pilsner or Pilsener) • Sticke (strong altbier) • Rauchbier (smoke beer)