Same, bought a sack of Minch Hook Head, at a really nice low price. Less than my last sack (which was Maris Otter). Between that, and the Dingemans Pilsen I have left, I should be good for quite a while for base malt once again. To be honest, I suspect the only place you'll see price hikes is, as usual, on products that already attract a "premium" price tag, like Maris Otter. Usually these products are overrated anyway, but you don't know that until you discover the less well known products.
As to beer prices, the beer I REALLY like hasn't gone up in price in years, it's still 4 bottles for £6 in Asda.
My wife even spotted a single solitary bottle of Titanic Plum Porter left on the shelf earlier today, so snagged it for me, also a part of the offer. As a bonus, more bottles to add to my collection once empty.
Besides, let's be honest, how cheap it is to brew our own, we can absorb some increase in price in our grain, probably far more easily than the big boys can. Pence on a pint is nothing to us surely eh?
I used to find it painful buying my wife a phone when she insisted on having a Blackberry (she loved the iddy biddy keyboards), it was such a relief when she finally realised she had no choice but switch to Android finally. I think I read the new one is something like £1500 isn't it? Silly money for a phone.
