A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Million Kegs Are Going Stale

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The coronavirus pandemic stranded unused beer in stadiums, concert halls, restaurants and bars. Now brewers and distributors facing sizable losses have to figure out what to do with it all.

Millions of gallons of beer stuck in stadiums, concert halls, restaurants and bars are fast going stale, leaving the beer industry with a tricky problem: What to do with all that booze nobody will ever drink?

The coronavirus pandemic forced U.S. bars to close ahead of two of the country’s biggest drinking occasions: St Patrick’s Day and the “March Madness” basketball tournament. Beer intended for those events is now spoiling in locked establishments, and brewers are trying to get it back so kegs can be refilled before lockdowns...

 

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I'd take a couple if they plan on giving them out free.

Send the beer to homes via the tap

It's a Food Group!!

Farmers are having to dump their milk... brewers will have to do the same.

I will buy 2!

Contact me I'll give you my address . I'll take care of the delivery fee's too. 😁

How about universal beer deposit in my belly

Slap a label on it and call it molson.

Who cares?

I’ll give you my address and you can drop it in my backyard

DrewMihalik Assemble the A Team. The worlds brewers need us now more than ever. savethebeer 🍻

Time for a 'free beer' for the public and of course a tax write-off for the outfits doing the 'generosity' !!!

Cheap prices and sell out

DidaceIrafasha am sure you'd gladly offer an idea or two😂

Oh, the humanity!!!

Feed to the pigs

Disinfectants can be made from the beer. Have a nice weekend.

Donations?.

How about giving it away instead of looking for profit like the farmers?

Bring it in Kenya😍😍😍

donate it to the essential workers?

How long before it becomes stale?

I still do NOT see any beer on sale.

Brats in beer for Frontline workers.

👋🏻👀

Homer would know the answer.

In my experience, it is usually already stale.

Ill take some

That's funny they knew we were in a pandemic and they kept brewing beer for the ball parks that have been shut down 2 months ago. Waiting for bailout money are we?

the best solution is to give out to those in need with home delivery

Call me. I’m here to help.

SALE!

...need directions to my house?! 🍺

What to do with it? Ya drink it! What else can you do with it?

Send some my way! I miss my draft beer!!!

Gee, what Beer is going stale during a global pandmenic where just about all aspects of our economy are being impacted? There must be a WSJ demographic that finds this story compelling, and apparently they are replying to this tweet.

Call me

They would sooner destroy that beer than give it away.

Gift them free. Home to Home free delivery. Being a little Philantrophic won't harm the brewers!

Give it away

Over here. 12 cents on the dollar take/leave

billmaher

Give it away free in 2 gal jugs

BobGizzy FirstWorldProblems

Throw a huge kegger – I'll bring the Solo cups 🥳🍻

OK Boys and Girls its time to step up and save the Beer!

Use it on plants & produce, it’s less caustic than many pesticides. The rest you can leave at my house...

I’m sure we can find some people to help. Send me two.

Volunteers of low risk citizens must be mobilized. Draft?

Kegger? Woo! Kegger!

Sounds like free beer coming soon to a neighborhood near you!

I mean.....beer is alcohol and alcohol is a disinfectant.....right? ...maybe that’s what he meant?

Sounds like America’s problem drinkers have to step up to solve this problem

😂😂😂😂😂...maybe they’ll lower the prices?

I will take one for America and volunteer to assemble a team that is perfectly suited for this task.

Yes please! I volunteer yesterday! Post haste!

Give them all to me. I’ll drink it

Um, yea. Maybe you should have sold them cheap to people sitting home when you had the chance?

Maybe give it away before it gets spoiled? Do they deliver? OK, that may be too much to ask. I could pick it up.

opportunity here for whoever gets creative with this....

Give them away to those confined in homes / especially the elderly

вЯ верю лучшее

Now beer industry may need bailout?

I’ll take some

Fire stations. Solved.

There will be plenty of people who would like to take it off their hands.

Let’s just do it, drive thru beer. One won’t get you drunk.

Recycle ♻️

What to do when you millions of kegs around? You take one down and pass it around...

Think prohibition before it turns into yeast cakes!

Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Over the coming weeks, we will be horrified by the lost and disposed of products that 'expired.' Millions of chickens are being 'destroyed' because the labor no longer exists to properly harvest them. Let that sink in. We have to get back to work.

The beer truck is a good idea!!!

(Leaving pubs and restaurants with a problem) sell it at price to the public... bottle the beer out of the barrels and make a sticker making it a thing that it’s cov19 era beer get a buzz around it and it will sell out

Can it not be refined further down into an alcohol-based sanitizer? That's a market to corner, lately!

Take all the bud/miller/coors and all the other watered down swill and dump into the toilet. That about all it is worth and where it would end up anyway.

In the midst of a National Crisis, stale beer is the last concern. Another example of misplaced priorities that consume our stricken society and destroy youth. Archie Bunker had it right when he said: 'You can't BUY it, you just RENT it'. Use fermentation gas to create energy.

Toga Toga ...

Good. Dump it.

give the beer away to the workingclass. The Ruling Class might as well get us drunk before they 'fuck' us again. better yet give it to our government and business leaders before the 'pitchforks and guillotines' crowd get ahold of them

Feed it to pigs/cattle

Convert them into liquor. Japan is doing that.

What do you mean nobody will ever drink it? Just send it to people

Give it to our troops

Send me one thanks

Free booze for everybody when we celebrate deconfinement

Have a sale!!!

Yo, I could take a few kegs off your hands...........gladly!

Alcohol to waste? Travesty, turn it into hand sanitizer

Beer bread, food banks!

Now that alcohal abuse!

Companies must distribute this mass amounts for free at this time and get her mony back by raising the price of beer

ARM BENT, alright ill take a couple and pass it through my body to dispose of it the right way!. NoAles onlyLagersAndSours

I’ve got the answer on what to do , hosers

Beer bread?

Nobody will drink?! 🤦‍♂️

Auction off Kegs to pay the salaries of the employees.

Oh, Oh, pick me!

I mean... I'll take a keg or two off their hands.

Why not export to Africa. ..

The frat boy in me is just going fuuuuuuuuuck... How can we solve this problem?

I am sure many people would appreciate generosity instead of pouring it out. That will never happen tho.

Isn't that 'alcohol abuse '...

Boo hoo.

DISCOUNT, DISCOUNT, DISCOUNT

RockyMountViews I can help! 🍻🍻

Bail out the beer.

Beer party.

Call it Bud Light and no one’s the wiser?

Stadiums...is it good beer? That’s ok.

DM me if it is Corona, Pacifico, or Mike's Black Cherry.

Feed it to pigs and livestock.

Redistill it and use the ethanol cut for sanitizer....

How about finding a way to sell it at discounted price or give it away for free. Duhhh

Ill help!!!!

This article brought to you by Anheuser Busch. People are drinking *good* beer like it's the end of the world, nobody wants swill. And I'm pretty sure AB will be just fine at the end of this, spare me.

I volunteer to save the beer, Are their others who will volunteer with me.

My husband’s birthday is coming up...

Probably the toughest challenge of the year.

Doh! Flush it! Isn’t that where beer ends up anyway.

Can it grow the fields?

May-toberfest?

I have an idea . . . .

Bottle it.

Send it to my place

Sell it to the Chinese.

Give it to me

Did give it away for free ever cross their minds? These damn greedy corporations are like: 'well if I can't make a profit, then nobody deserves it and I'll pour it all down the drain'.

Here’s my address...

Send it to my house.

The ice cream truck. But with beer.

RockyMountViews Quick, someone tell Fox and Friends that stale beer kills Covid-19.

SimonRo82540813

This breaks my heart.. 🙁 beer

The industry is up over 60 % during the pandemic, for heavens sake. Does WSJ still employ editors?

😎🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷

Skim off the foam on top and sell it to bakers as brewers yeast, like they did hundreds of years ago

Tell Democrats to stop obstructing people's lives

Fertilizer?

The amount of money lost due to the shut down of the economy is huge.

Somebody tell realDonaldTrump this will cure the Coroa Virus.

Augment and sell as sanitizers?

Make it a gin.

animal feed

I have an idea! Open the bars!

DM me for my address to send it to

DONATE! Duh!

SaabiraC Thinking how many lives are being saved with fewer drunk drivers on the roads. 👍👍👍👍

Feed it to farm animals?

Pour one out

Send me some

Um (raises hand)

Beer Drinkers of America! UNITE! 🇺🇸 🍺 🍻 🍻 🍺 🇺🇸

let's have a national covid kegger bring your own mask

BeerAdvocate cloverleafinfo OtherHalfNYC Need my address?

BeerAdvocate Need my address?

If there's a study group, I volunteer.

I got 12 right now just sitting in the cooler at work

Everyone I know has been drinking way more beer than usual. I’m 100% sure we can find a home for all that forgot about beer.. 🤣

I guess disaster recovery plans are helpful no matter the size of your business.

Unused beer? Do they keep the used beer?

Host an intergalactic kegger.

Sports missing

DRINK IT. 🤭

I’m thinking this should be an easy problem to fix🤔

I got this...

FREE BEER!!!

I can help you

Distill it!

Sell it at a steep discount.

How about homemade breads without preservatives?

They could distill the alcohol and produce the much needed sanitisers

When this becomes our biggest problem, I will weep with joy.

Sell it on the cheap.

Leave it out on the sidewalk, problem solved.

Gimme gimme.

Just call it 'keystone ice' no one will know

Happy to forward my address along

I volunteer to come grab a few kegs, free of charge.

I think they could sell it at cost to Americans as a write off. Then we could write off our taxes on Schedule C as a working-from-home business deduction. Or perhaps, Schedule A under medical costs would work. Everybody wins!

Bring one to me forthwith

Shale I dm them my address no point it going to waste

If it was wine, you could drop it off at my house. But beer is generally more fattening.

They should do house to house deliveries🙄😃😆🤗😎

German and British experts have recently made a major discovery: wearing a mask can effectively block the spread of new coronary pneumonia. . . It is now ready to implement the 'compulsory measures for wearing masks'.

Unless it’s good craft beer it is no loss at all

The beer they charge $12 a glass for?

'It’s time to use the 25th Amendment on Trump after his dangerous COVID-19 disinfectant comments: Boston Globe columnist' Trump is unfit for office.

ChineseVirus

Flat beer sucks. Smoke weed instead.

Any insight into what the WTI-Miller Light spread is looking like these days? Happy to accept delivery of any Miller Light kegs for a fee

Kobe beef?

🙋‍♂️

Cleansers and shampoo.

I am sure there are a number of individuals who would be happy to help out with the beer.

What's the brand?

We're done with taxpayer funded corporate welfare. It's high time executives break out the bootstraps and gumption.

Bake something, cook something, can any of it be used to clean anything 🧐

Scrap the ethanol from the beers and use it to make sanitizers or other chemicals. Plus, aromatic compounds in alcohol can be used to make fertilizers for plants

No solo los cerveceros todo lo que se llama productos comestibles que son lo mas importante

donate the beer! beer for everyone!

All you need is good friends, good food, and good music.

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