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The UK’s biggest wholesaler has begun rationing beer, cider and soft drinks as rising demand amid the heatwave and England’s World Cup campaign comes up against a shortage of food-grade carbon dioxide gas (CO2) which is hitting supplies.
Booker, which supplies thousands of convenience stores including the Londis, Budgens and Premier chains, as well as restaurant chains including Wagamama and Carluccio’s, is limiting beer and soft drinks purchases to 10 cases per customer and cider to five cases. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/26/beer-rationed-as-uks-food-grade-carbon-dioxide-runs-low
This is a serious problem as it reads as if they're limiting stores and restaurants. Not individuals though most would not need 10 cases. Unless there was a run on beer :)
Somehow, can't we fix climate change and the beer problem at the same time?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by kazzie on Wednesday June 27 2018, @06:56PM
The reason given (presumably in TFA, certainly in European media) is that many ammonia/CO2 factories that normally shut down for maintenance over the summer, when demand for ammonia for fertilizers is low. This year the shutdown of several plants has overlapped, and coincided with unexpected warm weather as well as the (entirely predictable) football world cup, both of which increase demand for bubbly drinks.