Greenyinthewestofsydney Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8139409/amp/Australias-biggest-brewer-says-country-run-BEER-three-months-coronavirus.html Takes lion 3 months to grow the yeast to brew apparently. Must be starting from one smackpack!!! Smacks of a scare strategy more like it i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Captain!! Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 To go out and buy more beer now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerlust Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 There's likely some truth to this. In just the last week to 10 days, I've seen a noticeable increase in bulk purchases of alcohol, particularly packaged beer. Due to the forced closure of pubs/clubs & other on-premise venues, off-premise bottleshops are now experiencing higher volume sales as they are now the only available source of alcoholic products to the general public, unless you home brew or home distil yourself. Given we appear to only be one step away from being put into total lock down due to the COVID-19 virus, people are panic buying & hoarding all sorts of things & packaged beer is just one of them. I'm not sure if the breweries are experiencing higher sales given the loss of kegged on-premise beer, but I would think they are. And if in fact they are, brewing volumes would have to increase to keep up with that demand. Just my 20 cents, Lusty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naughty Corner Brewing Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I think they have a spike as they dump the bulk packaged beer and increase consumer packaging in the short term, but I don’t think they’ll be brewing that much more. It’s still 750ml off beer if it comes from a tallie or a keg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenyinthewestofsydney Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 22 hours ago, Beerlust said: There's likely some truth to this. In just the last week to 10 days, I've seen a noticeable increase in bulk purchases of alcohol, particularly packaged beer. Due to the forced closure of pubs/clubs & other on-premise venues, off-premise bottleshops are now experiencing higher volume sales as they are now the only available source of alcoholic products to the general public, unless you home brew or home distil yourself. Given we appear to only be one step away from being put into total lock down due to the COVID-19 virus, people are panic buying & hoarding all sorts of things & packaged beer is just one of them. I'm not sure if the breweries are experiencing higher sales given the loss of kegged on-premise beer, but I would think they are. And if in fact they are, brewing volumes would have to increase to keep up with that demand. Just my 20 cents, Lusty. The main quote that got me was it would take 3 months to grow the yeast but yeah packaged beer they would be running low. Went into the local and they were low there. I think there might be cheap kegs going at some stage too if anyone has a commercial keg coupler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerlust Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 2 hours ago, Greeny1525229549 said: The main quote that got me was it would take 3 months to grow the yeast... Surely even if they were unable to produce beer for a period of time, they'd at least keep their yeast stocks at volumes ready to go when needed? Cheers, Lusty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naughty Corner Brewing Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, Greeny1525229549 said: The main quote that got me was it would take 3 months to grow the yeast but yeah packaged beer they would be running low. Went into the local and they were low there. I think there might be cheap kegs going at some stage too if anyone has a commercial keg coupler. Some selling kegs at Maryborough on Facebook today. Edited March 28, 2020 by NewBrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Yep, elephant hotel in the valley is selling full and part full kegs. If only I had a coupler... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristinaS1 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Wonder if they will switch to making hand sanitizer instead? Lots of distilleries and breweries in Canada have because there isn't enough of the stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bribie G Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 As a fully registered Pommie (Aus citizen for 40 years) I wouldn't take much notice of the UK Daily Wail. As with most MSM they generally get it dead wrong. Three months to grow yeast? Pull the other one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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