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A Bomber Bubble?

If you keep your eyes cast upward as you hike the wooded forests (or cities) of Oregon, you will occasionally see an ancient tree that appears dead at first glance.  But then you spy one small branch with glossy, green leaves.  That’s more or less what’s become of one of my favorite blogs, It’s Pub Night, on which blogger Bill Night has managed just four posts in 2014.  Ah, but what posts.  This week he updated his Portland Beer Price Index, the leafy branch he has sworn to keep alive.  (And he’s only barely managing it, having missed the first quarter’s report.)  Nevertheless, Monday’s results were most interesting:

  • 6-packs: $9.66, down 3 cents (Q1: -.01, Q2: -.02)
  • 22-ounce bombers: $5.54, up 30 cents (Q1: +.30, Q2: -.00)

Bill has data going back five years now, and that gives us a pretty decent sense of what’s been happening in the market.  (Although Bill’s numbers are based on Portland prices, the trends should be interesting to everyone in the country.) If you look at the long-term tr …

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