From thousands of miles away, the Four City Brewery Company has felt the ripple effects of the crisis, from the costs of their aluminum cans down to the very grains that fuel their brew.
Co-owner Anthony Minervino says it all adds up very quickly:
"Grain has gone up 18, 20, 25 cents a pound. So when you're talking about hundreds, maybe a thousand pounds per batch, it's a lot of money."
It's a labor-intensive operation for the craft beer maker, which cans their own creations by weighing them by hand and packing them into boxes.
The company has so far managed to avoid raising their prices -- but compounded by the effects of inflation, Minervino says they may soon have to turn to the taproom to recoup some of their losses.
"Inflation is impacting and rippling all the different aspects of our business, with the shipping and the grain and the product and even the gas, PSE&G, and all these companies have gone up because their trucks are on the road, that uses more fuel, the fuel is more expensive. So everything has gone up... It's a big hit. We have to really try to make that up somewhere else."
Ukraine is one of the world's leading exporters of grain and vegetable oils.
However, it's introduced export licenses for wheat and suspended exports of dozens of other commodities since February, the start of the Russian invasion, which Moscow calls a 'special operation.'
