Floods Lead to Beer Shortage

Unless you have been living with your head in the sand, or in an insular self absorbed country, you would be well aware that the state of QLD is a natural disaster area with large parts of the capital Brisbane underwater due to flooding. Some 90000 homes have been lost and over 100 people dead or feared missing. I'd like to bring your attention to this article which not only points out the obvious, but also highlights a rather serious issue - Beer shortage.

This is pretty serious. The XXXX brewery in Milton was flooded yesterday and production was forced to stop. The banana benders in far north Queensland drink more beer per capita than anywhere else on the planet, and now they are going to be faced with the worst situation of all - Pubs with no beer. I'm predicting riots and civil unrest as QLD moved forward into the cleanup period.

So you are probably sitting there in the UK or the US thinking, so what a few less gigalitres of XXXX in the world is probably a good thing. Well not really, consider how it would be if your backyard turned into a swamp? So what can YOU do? Head over to the relief fund at Aussiehomebrewer.com and make a donation and help support those affected, buy them a beer.