This Is The Beginning Of The End

[gbf]

Headline in USA Today, 05May2016

"Brewery Buckles, leaving thirsty Venezuelans beerless"

"Cerveceria Polar, which produces more than three-quarters of the country's suds, closed the last of its four domestic breweries in late April."
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The penny-ante crime on Bonaire is not enough to keep many away, but the lack of Polarcita...

(looking at you, wwguy)

 

[mbs]

Headline in USA Today, 05May2016

"Brewery Buckles, leaving thirsty Venezuelans beerless"

"Cerveceria Polar, which produces more than three-quarters of the country's suds, closed the last of its four domestic breweries in late April."
​

The penny-ante crime on Bonaire is not enough to keep many away, but the lack of Polarcita...

(looking at you, wwguy)

Damn, now you folks will drink all of our Brights

 

[Doctorfish]

Thank god there is still Amstel. Not quite the same but good enough.

 

[wwguy]

This is indeed a sad day.

Similar news about pending shutdown of Venezuelan Polar breweries caught my attention a year ago. (I think we discussed briefly in this forum at the time.) But I was pleasantly surprised over the Christmas holidays to find Polarcita available in abundance on Bonaire. Now it really does look like the end is near.

We had a good run while it lasted though...

 

[gbf]

That is such a great photo...

 

[scubafanatic]

Venezuela's impending collapse/implosion into a 'failed state' is probably going to have severe consequences for Bonaire, after all, how many how many tourists will come (and how many locals will want to stay) at a completely defenseless island a stone's throw away from the Western Hemisphere's version of Somalia or Afghanistan ?

 

[gbf]

Venezuela's impending collapse/implosion into a 'failed state' is probably going to have severe consequences for Bonaire, after all, how many how many tourists will come (and how many locals will want to stay) at a completely defenseless island a stone's throw away from the Western Hemisphere's version of Somalia or Afghanistan ?

dude....Have a pol... bright.

 

[Kharon]

Somalia or Afghanistan ? Really? I admit I don't know the situation in Venezuela but that seems a bit extreme to me.

 

[Lorenzoid]

Mandating a two-day work week to conserve resources sounds more like Somalia, Afghanistan, etc., to me than anything in the Americas. Sorry to see that Polar is a victim. I prefer Amstel as far as flavor, but I'll drink a Polar for the novelty of a Venezuelan beer.

 

[boat sju]

Noooooooo.