Posted on 07/26/2015 6:54:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Venezuela could stop making beer by August, as local breweries run out of ingredients needed to produce the country’s most popular alcoholic drink. A brewery shutdown would reduce the country’s beer supply by a terrifying 80 percent, according to industry leaders.
Local breweries say they are down to their final batches of barley, malt and other imported products needed to make beer, thanks to Venezuela’s strict currency controls that have made it almost impossible to purchase supplies. The industry, which is calling the situation an “unprecedented crisis,” is already some $200 million in arrears to suppliers around the world.
“Beer shortages will essentially force our sector to go broke; beer accounts for 70 percent of our sales,” Fray Roa, a spokesman for Venezuela’s National Association of Liquor Store Owners.
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S**t just got real.
Pass a law making it mandatory to brew more beer.
Or just sign an order.
How do you screw up something as simple as beer?
“Venezuela could run out of beer by next month”
Now that could provoke REAL rebellion. But how would rebellion be stoked up, if not for the fuel known as beer?
Something of a conundrum.
I know - go to home brewing and hand it out clandestinely.
A very timely enterprise.
Time to go imperial. We’ll trade beer for Venezuela.
LOL. You beat me to it.
They need a counter-revolution against the Chavezistas.
When there is no cerveza left, there’s only one thing left to do!
Do you know what that is boys and girls?
“How do you screw up something as simple as beer?”
The government seizes the crops required for “the Common Good.” The farmers stop planting because...why work for free? (Two weeks ago, the government seized the farmer’s produce.) Another thing to do is debase the currency so that what is paid for the crops is valueless.)
Why is the CIA destroying Venezuela’s beer supply????!!!!
It’s the end of the world as they know it...
I don’t care. I have all the beer I can drink.
¿Jeb?
Maybe Budweiser can step in with some foreign “aid.”
The endless wonders of leftist politics in action.
And where half the lefty f@tards think it won’t happen here, the other lefties want it to happen.
Let papa Fidel ship in some Cuban imports to the masses.
Does Cuba make any beer?
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