The rising prices of beer's main ingredients (barley for the drink, aluminium for cans) have cut margins slimmer.

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But the black-market rate determines the prices of everything from beer to school fees.

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According to research gathered by NerdWallet, the prices of jerseys, chicken wings and beer have all increased.

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He said beer prices were going up faster than the price of inflation so customers could not afford to go to pubs.

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Western producers of bottled beer picked up the slack, but at prices most people could not afford.

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They were alleged to have co-operated in setting the price of beer sales to licensed premises in the Netherlands, keeping prices artificially high.

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Each looks at the prices of hundreds of things we commonly spend money on, including bread, cinema tickets and pints of beer - and tracks how these prices have changed over time.

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