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I wonder how much of it is concerns about health or social responsibility and how much is just it's too goddamned expensive to be able to afford it these days.
The article does say that income is a factor:
How are they measuring it? I don't buy alcohol but I drink it. Far cheaper to make my own.
Ah, thank you! I should have been more clear - it's of course a factor to some nebulous degree, but I'd be extremely interested to see a study or similar on the impact income is having on alcohol consumption right now.
Not where I live, poor people drink a lot more, they just do without anything else.
I mean I like alcohol-free beer because I want to socialize without getting smashed, but it is absolutely not cheaper than regular beer
It's a bit annoying isn't it? They raised the price of all alcoholic drinks with "minimum price per unit of alchohol" rules, as a disincentive to supermarket special-offer binge-drinking, but then they charge this increased price for the alcohol free versions too...
It's a ripoff. Zero beer costs what heavily taxed beer costs. It should be cheaper than soda.
It depends on the beer. The really good ones do a full brew then extract the alcohol. The cheaper ones tend to be sweeter so haven't done the fermentation.