Venezuela is About to Run Out of Beer

Venezuela’s Apocalypse Approaches.

Venezuela could stop making beer by August, as local breweries run out of ingredients needed to produce the country’s most popular alcoholic drink. A brewery shutdown would reduce the country’s beer supply by a terrifying 80 percent, according to industry leaders.

Local breweries say they are down to their final batches of barley, malt and other imported products needed to make beer, thanks to Venezuela’s strict currency controls that have made it almost impossible to purchase supplies. The industry, which is calling the situation an “unprecedented crisis,” is already some $200 million in arrears to suppliers around the world.

“Beer shortages will essentially force our sector to go broke; beer accounts for 70 percent of our sales,” Fray Roa, a spokesman for Venezuela’s National Association of Liquor Store Owners.

Ouch. Never let a socialist run your economy, dumbasses. Wait… Oh yeah, we’ve kind of done the same thing.

There is a good site on growing hops here, for those who are not sure they could survive this particular shortage themselves.

I am convinced that in the next few decades, we will look back on this time, when we effortlessly went to supermarkets stocked with everything, and just bought what we wanted, and marvel at how unusual it really was.

Apocalypse cometh.