Beer Off the Gold Standard

While we are seeing slightly more inflationary times, beer pricing is not following suit as it historically has (perhaps productivity gains and beer pricing are inversely related). Off-premise pricing of beer remained soft in November, with the beer consumer price index up only 0.3%. While that is a sequential improvement from October, it is still well below the general CPI, which is up 3.5% (almost considered inflationary), and YTD beer CPI remains at a dismal 1.1%While much ink has been