Relax craft beer connoisseurs, Glendale’s good stuff is flowing just fine.
The craft beer industry has spent much of August dealing with a shortage of carbon dioxide due to the ever popular “supply chain problems,” which unfortunately have impacted many U.S. and international businesses since the start of the pandemic. The CO2 shortage in some parts of the country is causing rising prices and slowdowns in craft beer production.
Adding to the problem, the Washington Post reports this month, is the contamination of a site in Jackson Dome, Mississippi, which is one of the country’s largest CO2 producers and where raw gas from a mine reduced the amount of food-grade CO2 available. Still another reported factor are maintenance shutdowns at several ammonia plants that are key producers of CO2, according to the Brewers Association, which represents small and independent craft breweries.
