Trouble brewing as hops shortage slams beer makers - MarketWatch

Amid the current supply-and-demand dynamic, prices for hops have surged, even among the small brewers lucky enough to have secured multiyear hop contracts from distributors.
“We saw [price] shifts in some varieties of hops of as much as 300%” in the past year, Wolaver says.
Those less fortunate have to scrounge for hops at the spot price. Hop pellets at the end of 2007, one supplier in Yakima, Wash., says, had been selling for up to five times what they would go for in normal years.

Al Gore, you and a gajillion hippies and just as many not-2-brites, have much to answer for already, but this would be the final straw. A man can only take so much before he snaps, and you are now fucking with the very fabric of the universe.

Via Winds of Change…