Breweries in South Carolina may have to dump kegs of beer that have gone stale due to a lack of sales during the coronavirus shutdown.
Because restaurants have been closed, effectively eliminating draft beer sales, and large gatherings have been banned, keg sales have cratered, leading some breweries to come to the decision to soon dispose of beer that has gone “out-of-code,” The Post and Courier reported.
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SC Governor, Henry McMaster just decreed 2 more weeks of time out for us. At this point it borders on the ridiculous.
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ReplyDeleteI hope they dumped it into a hayfield. The nutrients in beer make great hay for cows and horses.
ReplyDeleteAn article a few days ago said cattle raisers had already lost $1.7 billion. I asked if that figure was cattle not sold and was told yes. Sounds like Congressional economics. In truth, the money is still on the hoof, eating grass and doing cattle things. A car lot could claim the same losses, millions, because the anticipated sales did not happen. We will get out of this, but I do not want to see businesses get federal money for sales not made. The inventory has not changed location.
ReplyDeleteI dared to ask the same question of our president of the company in a meeting one time. He said that we lost money last year, and I asked if that was like the automakers, who made 11 billion this year, and only 10 billion the next year, and so they said that they lost a billion dollars the second year.
DeleteI could not believe how red his face got. It was hard to keep from laughing at him. He yelled at me, in a meeting in front of all of the people from the shop and some of the office. I was one of the high seniority guys there, but I still gained a lot of " street cred" from making our company president mad.
I have been gone from there now since 2013, but after a couple of changes the company is now owned by Berkshire-Hathaway, Warren Buffet's company. I have heard that they are even worse to work for as an owner than the last owners. Totally numbers driven, period.
As for the beer, it is a damn shame that it has to be dumped, when they could just relabel it, call it Molsen, and nobody would notice the skunky taste as being different from normal.
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Not that I'm any expert, but as for cattle, they are a continuing expense until they are sold. My father was a hobby rancher (had about 25 head) and it was a frequent topic of discussion. There is a optimum age for selling the calves such that they can be fattened and then butchered to produce the nice juicy steaks you are used to eating. Past that age, the meat quality goes down along with the price per pound the cattle with fetch at auction. But the expense stays the same, so the ranchers will end up selling at a loss. You are right that the cattle can still be sold later, but there won't be any profit in it.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, you'd think just leaving them in the field where they can eat grass and drink from a pond is free, but it isn't. Most times, the land is leased, plus you can only put some many head per acre before you have to supplement the feed with hay/cubes/etc., along with other expenses. And don't forget the G-D govt is still going to tax you on the value of your herd, whether they are sellable or not.
There's a lot of nonsense and lies in the media, but I can believe the losses that ranchers, farmers, brewers, small business owners are facing. This is killing the small end of the economy. Only the too-big-to-fail stuff will survive, mostly with govt handouts from our tax dollars. Makes me spitting mad.
Back in the 90's when I ran cattle, I found more tax write-offs than any other business I had run before or since. The irs allows stuff to be written-off concerning raising AG product than anything else.
DeleteDoes anybody know how Scotland is doing? The reason I ask is my scotch supply is down to 3 bottles and if the Scots start dumping there old stuff I need to go over there and help. As in sip. JK
ReplyDeleteI volunteer to take a keg or two off their hands. I’ll even be happy to pay for the kegs - so I can have something to do exchanges with when I next need to ‘restock’.
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