Maneuvering around the materials shortage and supply chain disruptions is an all-too-common practice that practically every industry has been dealing with for the past year and a half. In the craft brewing business, blank, unprinted aluminum cans have been increasingly difficult to acquire, leaving some brewers without any cans at all and other with an excess that were
Though it’s easy to hold the Covid-19 pandemic responsible for the global supply chain disruptions of the past 18 months, there are a multitude of issues that have put pressure on an already vulnerable system. ‘What’s going on with the supply chain is a confluence of many different happenings. It’s really a perfect storm of highly disruptive events,’ said Jeff Ogren, North