“Glass, raw materials, cardboard, paper, personnel and rent: these have all become more expensive”, Mark Strooker of Oproer Brewery from Utrecht sums up. “Even the caps are more expensive,” he adds with a laugh. And then they are kind of lucky at Oproer, because they had concluded a new energy contract with that brewery just before the enormous price increases. “But all those costs of course mean that it is now more expensive to brew a beer.”
Beer production is considerably more expensive, but that does not always work out badly for local breweries
