Hop Shortage

The San Diego Union had a front page article on Friday, February 1, about the hop shortage and what it is doing to the beer industry. It said that beer prices were set to rise as early as today, February 4th, so I went to Ballast Point on Saturday to beat the increases. The guy working the register said he had not heard about the increases and said they would not be increasing for beers purchased at the brewery. That's good news. The article also said that Ballast Point was no longer bottling its super-hopped Dorado double IPA. I bought two bottles at the brewery to being my total to three that I hope gets me through the hop shortage.