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More than one million kegs of beer are sitting in empty stadiums, bars and restaurants across the US as breweries plan to deal with potential $1billion fallout
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 6, 2020 | Matthew Wright

Posted on 04/26/2020 6:08:32 AM PDT by C19fan

The beer industry has been left daunted as it tries to determine what to do with the millions of gallons of beer that is destined to go stale at the country's stadiums, concert halls, restaurants and bars. With major events like St. Patrick's Day and March Madness cancelled because of the coronavirus, beer has been wasting away behind locked doors. Draft beer stays fresh from between two to six months, executives told the Wall Street Journal.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: beer; virus
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To: C19fan

Stadiums are the best place in the weight to have social distancing. Put 4 or 5 empty stadium seats between every drinker and open the kegs.

Oh yeah... tape off 3 out of every 4 urinals. Can’t have the virus jumping you in the john.


21 posted on 04/26/2020 6:51:23 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Rockingham

22 posted on 04/26/2020 6:55:39 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parachutes are only anecdotally effective due to the lack of significant double blind testing.)
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To: C19fan
Oh, the humanity!


23 posted on 04/26/2020 7:13:12 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: C19fan

Well, ship it this way!


24 posted on 04/26/2020 7:16:08 AM PDT by I want the USA back (I fear my government more than the bug. I hate the media.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’ll wait for nickle pitchers...


25 posted on 04/26/2020 7:24:43 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: V_TWIN
I believe that is correct insofar as lengthening shelf life, but there is a limit even to refrigerated beer. The alcoholic content is simply insufficient to prevent a long-term breakdown. Most wines and hard liquor are, of course, a different story.
26 posted on 04/26/2020 7:29:45 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Blurb2350

What holocaust is that picture from?


27 posted on 04/26/2020 7:31:43 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: V_TWIN
As long as it stays refrigerated it’ll be fine.

As a craft beer home brewer I can tell you that is not the case. Beer will usually start to break down within 3-4 months of storage. Higher ABV beers will be ok a bit longer but will still go bad eventually.

Unless of course you like bad tasting beer. Then all bets are off!

28 posted on 04/26/2020 7:44:45 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Brewers and keg owners are hoping to regain their containers - which can run $100 to $120 apiece - in case they get wrapped up in bankruptcy proceedings.

In case the beer does expire, Samuel Adams owner Boston Beer Co plans to do their continued plan of recapturing its ethanol for gasoline.

New York brewers Montauk Brewing Co. and AB InBev-owned Blue Point Brewing Co. are switching their packaging, putting more beer in cans to sell in liquor or grocery

The distiller, The Better Man Distilling Co., is using the beer to make sanitizer.


29 posted on 04/26/2020 7:46:28 AM PDT by deport
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To: unixfox

People drink Bud Light. Some with that fake lime stuff. Bad beer is alive and well!


30 posted on 04/26/2020 7:46:50 AM PDT by Professional
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To: Professional
People drink Bud Light. Some with that fake lime stuff. Bad beer is alive and well!

I stand corrected!

31 posted on 04/26/2020 7:50:26 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: V_TWIN

Not true. Piss samples have to go the lab within 24 hours of being refrigerated.


32 posted on 04/26/2020 7:50:57 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: C19fan

“ERRRRRRPPP!!!”


33 posted on 04/26/2020 7:59:22 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: C19fan

Are they asking for volunteers to sample it to make sure it’s still good?.


34 posted on 04/26/2020 8:00:24 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: wally_bert
Seeing perfectly good things go to waste offends me greatly.

I share your sentiment. I find this especially egregious with food. My wife gives me some sideways glances when I heat up leftovers for a week, but I just cannot bring myself to throw away food unless it is absolutely necessary due to spoilage, but I rarely if ever allow it to get to that point. With greens such as spinach, cucumbers and celery; I will freeze it for a green smoothie. I think my grandparents, who lived through the great depression, have influenced my adult habit of avoiding food waste.

35 posted on 04/26/2020 8:06:48 AM PDT by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: C19fan

Turn our beef herds into Waygu.


36 posted on 04/26/2020 8:19:24 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: Disambiguator
Prohibition, of course! A national nightmare from another era.


37 posted on 04/26/2020 8:20:42 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: C19fan

Has this guy been trying to drink all of the excess.
Or is he using common core math.
Kegs weigh less empty obviously but kegs are still the same size. Unless I’m missing something like new crushable kegs.

‘This is a hot potato because none of our businesses are set up to return massive amounts of beer,’ shared Dan Vorlage, marketing head for Denver-based MicroStar Logistics LLC. ‘It takes three times as many trucks to transport full kegs than empty ones.’


38 posted on 04/26/2020 10:23:30 AM PDT by cquiggy
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To: C19fan

Issue the new Covus 19 income supplements in optional beer coupons which can be used to buy beer at discount.

Lots of that extra income is gonna be used to buy beer anyway.


39 posted on 04/26/2020 10:26:32 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: cquiggy

Trucks for towing trailers are rated by weight, not volume


40 posted on 04/26/2020 10:28:07 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than thrknow where to wing bleach, said one woman.)
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