Beer News: Mexican Drought Impacts Global Beer Production / Czech Pubs Go High Tech

, Beer News: Mexican Drought Impacts Global Beer Production / Czech Pubs Go High Tech

The beer biz never sleeps at American Craft Beer. And here’s just some of what’s been happening while you were drinking your way through a long holiday weekend.

Mexican Drought May Change the Balance of Global Beer Production

Mexico is the world’s largest beer exporter and many of those big breweries our located in the North, a region now reeling from one of the worst droughts in decades. Dry conditions currently affect 85% of the country. Mexico City is seeing its worst drought in 30 years. Mexican newspaper El País, has reported that roughly 60 large water reservoirs, mostly in northern and central Mexico, were below 25 percent capacity. Some residents have been left without running water altogether.

Mexico exported 42 million hectoliters of beer in 2021 and, according to the World Bank, Mexican brewers sold more than US$5 billion worth of beer abroad last year. Mexican beer exports far exceeds those of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, however its future as a global exporter looks shaky unless resolutions to the country’s increasing drought conditions  are found soon.

Constellation Brands, home to popular beer brands Corona and Modelo, began the construction of a mega-brewery in Mexicali, one of the driest regions in Mexico back in 2016. But responding to farmers and regional activists who argued that the new brewery would overburden the region’s already limited water resources, that brewery was never completed.

Heineken has a plant in Baja California, where they expanded capacity in 2021. Anheuser-Busch has two breweries in the northern Mexico.

If the droughts continue and breweries are forced to rebuild entirely in new areas, Mexican beer exports will be vastly reduced, a reduction that will be felt around the world.

 

Words to Drink By

“You are either smoking marijuana and have bought into the cannabis is king and will solve all your problems mania, or have not, there’s no in between.”- Bob Lefsetz, Music industry writer and media analyst

 

, Beer News: Mexican Drought Impacts Global Beer Production / Czech Pubs Go High Tech

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Czech Pubs Go High Tech

The Czechs are some of the biggest beer drinkers in the world. And the Pilsner Urquell Brewery, already one of Europe’s leaders in water and energy conservation, plans to introduce hi-tech taproom sensors that will help local pubs save up to 30% of the energy needed for cooling and tapping their beer. The system provides information on the amount of beer tapped, sanitation intervals and the state of the cooling system.

“We will observe 45 pubs using 1,200 sensors which gives us the exact numbers, how our tapping system consumes electric energy and we will relate this with the beer flow and its consumption in the pub,” Jakub Zaoral who is leading the Asahi-owned brewery’s Smart Taproom project told Reuters. “This will be sent to a cloud database and analyzed to make recommendations on improving a pub’s systems.”

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