Sams, Costco limiting rice sales

The scarcity of some cereal grains and rice has been pinching food manufacturers for some time now.  With corn suddenly profitable, and displacing other crops, malt and hops have been ever harder to come by.  Tim Herzog, the owner of Flying Bison brewery, told me the other day that if they hadn’t contracted their hops a year previous, they would have no raw materials to make their beer.   

The situation is so dire for many craft beer makers that Samuel Adams has opened up some of their strategic hop reserve (that’s not a typo) for public sale. 

All this to say:  Historically, didn’t people finally reach the breaking point and riot when it was whiskey, beer, or tea that was getting trounced by market forces/taxes?

Hmm….Gas or Beer….gas or beer?