Anheuser-Busch paused production at its Cartersville, Ga., brewery, shifting production to canned emergency drinking water for shipment to victims of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey. A-B originally said it shipped 50,000 cans, but we understand the number has grown to 155,000.
“Throughout the year, we periodically pause beer production at our Cartersville, Georgia brewery to produce emergency canned drinking water so we are ready to help out communities across the country in times of crisis,” Brewmaster Sarah Schilling. “Putting our production and logistics strengths to work by providing safe, clean drinking water is the best way we can help in these situations.”
Footnote: Everyone knows this will be a record-breaking disaster. To put the deluge in context, Chesapeake Bay holds 18 trillion gallons of water. Thus far, 15 trillion gallons have fallen on the South Texas area. And there’s more to come. The total rainfall in the affected region is exceed to exceed two Chesapeake Bays.