Czech Craft Breweries Call for Help to Save Millions of Pints
- Microbreweries hold about 1.9 million liters of unsold beer
- Web initiative lists 77 small beermakers seeking online sales
Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
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Save the Beer. That’s the rallying cry for microbreweries in the Czech Republic, the home of the world’s most avid beer drinkers.
While the shutdown of society to staunch the spread of the coronavirus in the central European country has led to shortages of some items such as protective facemasks and toilet paper, beer drinkers are being urged to up their game. At last count, about 1.9 million liters of craft beer is sitting in vats across the country, at risk of spoiling.