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Base Currency: Euro, EUR
on 24-December-2008

1 EUR = 1.3976 USD
1 EUR = 0.9442 GBP
1 EUR = 1.704 CAD
1 EUR = 2.0465 AUD
1 EUR = 126.182 JPY
1 EUR = 3.3446 BRL
1 EUR = 39.7245 RUB
1 EUR = 9.5863 CNY
Base Currency: US Dollar
on 24-December-2008

1 USD = 0.7156 EUR
1 USD = 0.6755 GBP
1 USD = 1.2192 CAD
1 USD = 1.4645 AUD
1 USD = 90.2879 JPY
1 USD = 2.3931 BRL
1 USD = 28.4238 RUB
1 USD = 6.8592 CNY
Currency Rates, EUR/USD Chart

Equities of the Largest Breweries

Equities of the Largest Breweries

Average Market Prices Change trend

December 24, 2008

Type Crop 2008 Crop 2009
2rs Barley EUR120.0-122.0 2.42% EUR137.0-139.0 1.43%
6rw Barley EUR114.0-116.0 2.54% EUR127.0-129.0 1.54%
2rs Malt EUR342.5-344.5 1.01% EUR355.0-357.0 0.70%
6rw Malt EUR334.0-336.0 1.03% EUR341.5-343.5 0.72%
Feed Barley EUR97.0-99.0 nq

Note: Just click on the price link and you will be led to our Market Price History. Average barley market prices are French and are estimated on FOB Creil basis. Average Malt Prices are theoretical and based FOB Antwerp being estimated on French malting barley. The changes are compared to last Newsletter's prices. Arrows indicate the direction of the change.


Top Industry News

Philippines: San Miguel establishing two new beer subsidiaries ...Click here
United States: Anheuser-Busch InBev to sell a beer distributorship in the US ...Click here
Russia: High excise on beer is ruining the industry – Union of Russian Brewers ...Click here
Canada: Brick Brewing receives C$1 mln as financial support from Ontario Government ...Click here
United States: US national beer sales drop by 3.8% in November 2008 year-on-year ...Click here
Ukraine: November beer production sees a 4.7% decrease ...Click here
Russia: Baltika sued for breach of malt contract obligations ...Click here
United States: Excellent barley crop traded at unattractive prices ...Click here
Canada: High-quality barley crop results in toughened malt specifications ...Click here
United Kingdom: In 2009, long term contracts are to be a welcome reassurance for malting barley growers - expert ...Click here




United States: One more lawsuit filed against Miller Coors as the brewer streamlines distribution channels ...More Info
Australia: Consumers Association wants to know where premium foreign beers exactly come from ...More Info
Canada: Ontario minimum prices for beer raised on the quiet ...More Info
Mauritius: Beer consumption up in December 2008, though on the decline during the last five years ...More Info
Ukraine & EU: Ukraine asks the EU to annul the restriction on cereals import ...More Info
Argentina: Corona beer to sell 500,000 cases this year – twice as much as in 2007 ...More Info
Peru: Backus beers increase market share by 5% in November ...More Info
New Zealand: DB Breweries latest beer release breaks company records ...More Info
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Brewery News

Philippines: San Miguel establishing two new beer subsidiaries
Food and beverage giant San Miguel Corp. has formed two new subsidiaries as part of its "restructuring program", GMA News communicated on December, 22.

The ...More Info

United States: Anheuser-Busch InBev to sell a beer distributorship in the US
The St. Louis-based unit of Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev will sell its Western Beverage Co., a huge wholesale operation based in Eugene, Oregon, to ...More Info

Russia: High excise on beer is ruining the industry – Union of Russian Brewers
Russia’s brewing industry needs a well-balanced tax policy which would take into account the rapidly changing economic situation and market. Meanwhile, under the global ...More Info

Canada: Brick Brewing receives C$1 mln as financial support from Ontario Government
Brick Brewing Co. Limited announced on December, 24 that it has received financial support of C$1 million, representing its share of the Ontario Craft ...More Info

United States: US national beer sales drop by 3.8% in November 2008 year-on-year
Unofficial national brewer sales indicate a decrease of about 3.8% in taxable removals from 13.6 barrels (revised) in November 2007 to an estimated 13.1 ...More Info

Ukraine: November beer production sees a 4.7% decrease
Ukraine’s beer production fell by 4.7% in November, Pivnoe-delo communicated on December, 22.

The nation’s brewers produced 1.8 mln hl of beer in November 2008, ...More Info

Malt News

Russia: Baltika sued for breach of malt contract obligations
Russkiy Solod (Russian Malt), the largest maltster in Russia, has filed a lawsuit with the Moscow’s Arbitrary Court demanding almost 1.6 bln roubles from ...More Info

Barley News

United States: Excellent barley crop traded at unattractive prices
A good barley crop in most production regions of the world has bolstered barley supplies, both in the feed and malting classes, but this ...More Info

Canada: High-quality barley crop results in toughened malt specifications
Many Canadian barley growers may find their chances limited for still having their crop selected as malting barley, Grainews warned on December, 23.

Tougher malt ...More Info

United Kingdom: In 2009, long term contracts are to be a welcome reassurance for malting barley growers - expert
UK malting barley needs to meet maltsters' specification to be really profitable and those on fixed price contracts will have done well in 2008, ...More Info
Scientific Digest

Multivariate Analyses of Beer Foam Stand

James J. Hackbarth

ABSTRACT:
J. Inst. Brew. 112(1), 17–24, 2006
Beer Foam collapse is often described as following an EDL ‘Exponential Decay Law’. Parameters are presented in which this is validated at two pouring temperatures, correcting for en-trained beer before tracking dry foam decline over time. The “mean life” time Tau for foam stand on six beer brands was calculated and compared, and the effect of various abuse/control treatments examined. Principal Component Analysis was then applied to correlate measurements of physical parameters with foam Tau. Key words: Exponential decay, foam collapse, foam measure-ment. Load full article, 8 pages, 3219 Kb, PDF file

Barley prices.
Malting and Feed Barley Prices


Theoretical Malt Prices

NB: Prices published are theoretical malt prices including financial cost, THC (for bulk and bags container) and all administrative costs. This prices may fluctuate according to the quantity per delivery and technical specifications.

* - 70/30 = 70% Average two Rows Spring and 30% Six Rows Winter
** - 50/50 = 50% Average two Rows Spring and 50% Six Rows Winter

Table of the week
Canada: Barley Supply and Disposition as of December 12, 2008
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These Days in Business History
December 22
1877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1973 Meeting in Tehran, the oil ministers of OPEC’s six Persian Gulf member countries announce that they will unilaterally raise the price of crude oil to $7 per barrel. In two-and-a-half months, OPEC has raised the price of oil by 128%.
1910 US postal savings stamps 1st issued

December 23
1834 Thomas R Malthus, English vicar/economist is born
1919 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
1922 BBC Radio began daily newscasts
1973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices

December 24
1851 US Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn
1893 Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
1922 BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"

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