Patrons find alcohol price rises hard to swallow

If this is as bad as things are in Southland then this is a great reason to move there. - Maybe these guys should get into homebrewing

"The main areas of pressure are global commodities, such as fuel, aluminium, sugar and malt that are utilised in many other sectors." The cost of malt has increased up to 50 percent, transport fuel by 50 to 60 percent and sugar and aluminium by 30 to 40 percent."

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