DOOM: Beer

[d000hg]

Had one of those in Germany you fed the glass in and got tokens to spend in that supermarket, doubt it was subsidised.

Who do you think pays for the machine, it most cost a fortune?

We still brew (got our summer beer conditioning atm), and have enough bottles to last us for the winter beers as well.

There isn’t a problem with labels as we just mark up the bottle caps with the type and month/year date.

Yeah I do similar although I did find sheets of sticky round labels you can print and stick on the caps which was rather fun. Latterly I just colour code so green is batch 57, yellow is batch 58, etc and rely on drinking it fast enough not to ever have an overlap.

[AtW]

Use cans?

[vetran]

Who do you think pays for the machine, it most cost a fortune?

Yeah I do similar although I did find sheets of sticky round labels you can print and stick on the caps which was rather fun. Latterly I just colour code so green is batch 57, yellow is batch 58, etc and rely on drinking it fast enough not to ever have an overlap.

Hardly expensive I suspect change from £10k with machines lasting a decade, one assumes it makes money for the supermarket somehow. There were a few out there. I thought it was a trend worth encouraging.

16 million colours so you should be ok.

[DaveB]

Also an ongoing aluminium shortage as prices are rocketing.

https://www.just-drinks.com/features...bite-analysis/

Tough pricing decisions ahead for brand owners as aluminium shortages bite – analysis


Widespread aluminium shortages last year compounded a miserable 12 months for brewers and soft drinks makers that rely on the metal for packaging. As the first quarter results for this year roll in, CEOs and leading executives are telling analysts what the effect of those shortages are having on their company's costs, and throwing light on how they will influence prices in the months ahead.

If it's hitting the global brands it will hit the small guys harder.