U.S. beer shortage looms with gap in carbon dioxide supply
The supply chain crisis and an extinct volcano are spurring a new beer shortage.
- “We’ve been running delivery to delivery for the past few weeks, and we are certainly concerned about the supply,” Aeronaut Brewing’s co-founder Ronn Friedlander told Axios Boston’s Mike Deehan.
Zoom in: A carbon dioxide production shortage caused by natural contamination at the Jackson Dome — a Mississippi reservoir of CO2 from an extinct volcano — is forcing brewers to cut back.
- Brewers across the country are reporting production delays in getting beer to the market and drafting contingency plans to switch to nitrogen.
- Nightshift Brewery outside Boston shut down a facility after being told their carbon dioxide supply was “cut for the foreseeable future, possibly more than a year.”
- Others are paying 3-4x as much.
Zoom out: The carbon dioxide shortage is the newest threat to the beer industry’s rebound from the pandemic.
- Beer makers — particularly small, independent craft brewers — are struggling with inflation and supply chain troubles.
- “It’s become a struggle to keep the doors open,” one brewer recently told Bart Watson, an economist at the Colorado-based Brewers Association.
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This is a huge catastrophe. It’s close to the end of civilization. If I have to switch to wine I’m gonna be pissed./ S//
I have to agree with Top on this one. The shelf life is better with spirits, so…tequila it is.