Brewers and Distribs Having An (Almost) Good Year

Fuel prices, insurance, and supplier margin and cost pressures have cut into distributor profits, and there's no relief in sight. What's worse is that their brewers who sell most of their beer in aluminum cans are getting hit twice as bad. Costs for everybody have proved to be unconscionable, even compared to last year which was bad. The big brewers watch as their hedges and price collars expire. Corn, wheat (which are both being diverted in massive droves to ethanol