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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @08:46AM
An increase in price is probably preferable to "no beer".
I am quite sure that with the worldwide recovery of CO2 from fractionating columns, we should be able to spring off enough for England to have some beer.
My guess is the biggest cost will be the logistics of getting it there.
In these days of mass production and economies of scale, logistics seems to be the last cost driver thats tricky to get rid of.