Heard on the Radio: "Rising Beer Prices could leave you tapped out”

Small brewers line up to pay premium prices for scarce ingredients - A double-whammy shortages of two main ingredients have sent the price of beer significantly higher - After water, the biggest components of most beers are malted barley, whose sugar starches are fermented into alcohol, and hops, which add the bitter tang. In recent months, both have been in increasingly short supply, and when they have been available, their prices have leaped — by as much as 500 percent in the case of hops.

Peter Martin, head brewer at Brown’s Brewing Co. in Troy, N.Y. talks with Mark Walsh & Sam Seder about it in a "Beer America" segment on "Left Jab Radio".

The segment can be heard on XM Satellite Radio's Channel 167 Saturday at 11 am or Sunday at 1 pm. If you miss it there, it can be heard as a podcast at http://www.leftjabradio.com