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

Re:A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Millio... by boomboomsubban on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:02AM (#22976259)

>In Germany we had the “beer man” who would drop off beer weekly and collect the empties. This should be adopted in the USA.

This is standard practice in the US, empty kegs end up back at a brewery where they are sanitized and refilled. Part of the problem reported here is that kegs aren't being used, leading to a lack of kegs available to be refilled.

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Re:A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Millio... by subpixel on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:18PM (#22980008)

No, the beer man in Germany comes to your house and delivers a crate of .5l bottles of beer, and picks them all up the next week with your next delivery. The bottles are washed and are reused (not melted down and recycled).

That - along with the bierautomat - ranks up there with the things I miss most about Germany.

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Re:A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Millio... by gumby on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:29PM (#22981683)

Bierautomat is also common in Japan, luckily!

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Re:A New Problem Is Brewing in the Beer Industry: One Millio... by joezydeco on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:25PM (#22980095)

The commenter is talking about weekly scheduled home delivery of cases of beer and soft drinks.

Many communities in the US had similar deliveries for milk back in the day.

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