Shed101
Beer Dog
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As it ******* should be.
Anyone blaming excise is a full of shit dickhead. Yes, even you. Lower the excise on craft beers and it will still cost more than the megas and dumbfuck drunks will still by the cheap shit. Seriously - how many of you say "Geez, I could really go a RIS right about now...oh look at that! VB Raw is on sale!!!" Stupidity.
Yes, even you
Rubbish.
Aside from the bigotted inverse snobbery you've expressed you're comparing apples with motorbikes. People will buy beer regardless of the price, just like putting up the price of ciggies never works.
But it's not RIS Vs. VB Raw, it's more likely to be XXXX vs. Nirvana Pale Ale, people may try another brand of something that isn't too far away from their normal go-to.
I've heard from several brewers, bottleshop owners, and restaurateurs that in the past five years the people who drink craft beer has changed - it seems the Y-generation have taste buds (and probably a touch of snobbery) and they're not afraid of using them.
I didn't follow the link from the original link in this thread, but from the brewing news I read from the Oz, UK and USA, there has been a considerable trend to lower beer sales. But most reports also highlight a growth in sales of craft/cask/micro- beers!
Unfortunately the problem with this country is virtual monopolisation and cartels in most industries. Free markets don't work very well.
Woolies/Coles: >70% of Australian groceries market, own massive amounts of clubs, pubs and even breweries etc, etc.
It's that sort of behaviour that fucked up British breweries in the '60s, and the umbrella corporations nearly took the lot down.
With the lobbying power of these sorts of people, who are scared of the potential threat of
Take Japan. A micro- (which gets less heavily taxed) is anything under 1 million litres of beer / year and therefore account for 66% of beer in the country,
USA - 1.8 million litres.
Australia... 30,000 litres :blink:
So we should all be behind this http://www.fairgocraftbeer.com.au/ then maybe we can convert more of these bogans to real beer, not cold fizzy pop in shiny cans.
EDIT: Spooling