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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Khrushchev was ousted in part because there was a shortage of vodka in the Soviet Union.
Probably Bucanero or Mayabe
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Mayabe, mayabe not.
I see a remake of the movie WHISKEY GALORE!With as Venezuela slant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_Galore!_%28film%29
***Now that could provoke REAL rebellion.***
Kind of like the Liquid Bread riots in Germany!
No beer??? Viva la revolución!
Time to storm the Bastille?
No beer, bad water, and no toilet paper should make for an interesting situation.
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