Posted on 04/30/2016 2:57:13 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
CARACAS, Venezuela—The largest private Venezuelan company and producer of 80% of the beer consumed here began to shut down its last beer plant on Friday, the latest deprivation in a country crippled by shortages.
After Empresas Polar SA closed its three other beer plants over the past several days, the shutting of the San Joaquin plant, near Valencia, will leave just a week’s supply of beer, the company said. Like many other firms here, Polar blames the government, which hasn’t allocated the dollars the company needs to pay for imported raw materials such as malted barley.
President Nicolás Maduro’s government controls access to dollars, doling them out via a stringent currency exchange in which many companies find it hard to pay suppliers abroad.
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What happens when everyone has the vote.
There is good news. No need for a still for beer. Yeast and some type of sugar (malted barley) is all it takes. Refrigeration is nice but optional. Hops and carbination are the cherry on top.
So, when they are in the beer, do they drink it warm or find some ice?
If the water is a problem, you don’t want ice. You’ll get the same bacteria that you’d get from drinking the water, with the same undesirable digestive effects.
The best things about Socialism is the price of beer won’t go up.
When a nation rich in oil reserves has to lay off thousands of engineers and scientists, you know that there is something wrong. I pity the freshman in engineering when, after busting his ass for four years, he can’t find a decent job. Better to have studied arts instead of science.
Good night! What a Communist hell hole! The Venezuelans can’t even get clean water to make ice.
At least the Ruskies made sure the masses had plenty of cheap vodka.
I knew that.
Back in college some friends and I made a still in order to make whiskey from beer. It was fairly drinkable depending on the beer.
Of course, back then we also used to mix Everclear with grape HiCi so what is drinkable is fairly subjective.
...so what is drinkable is fairly subjective.
Truer words were never spoken.
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