Pubs With No Beer.

[gulliver1]

Weatherspoons and other Public Houses can not dispense beer, due to lack of supplies of CO2 caused by the closure of factories producing CO2. { During World Cup} OMG. P+++ up in a brewery. Can't we ask the EU to supply us.

[corylus]

Co2! Hell 's Teeth, we could make this this in the lab at school! So what's the problem now?

[youngmafbog]

Plenty being served in the Spoons I was in last night.

[youngmafbog]

The problem is some people in their infinite wisdom decided to close the plants for maintenance - during a World Cup.

One has to wonder if it was malicious rather than gross stupidity.

[Buenchico]

>>> The problem is some people in their infinite wisdom decided to close the plants for maintenance

The reason is that those plants aren't really in the business of producing CO2. They're ammonia plants, which happen to produce CO2 as a by-product. A lot of that ammonia is used for fertiliser production, which mainly occurs during the winter months, so it makes sense to carry out routine plant maintenance during the summer. Further, the current price of ammonia is so low that many producers view it as uneconomic to restart production at this time.

[Jackdaw33]

We used to recite a doggerel called The Pub With No Beer but I cannot recall it.

[Buenchico]