German breweries warn of acute shortage of bottles.
The shortage is due to higher production prices in combination with shipping problems in the form of too few trucks available.
– Last summer we will see a shortage. The situation is very strained, says the chairman of the German Brewery Association, Holger Eichele, to Bild.
The worst affected are small and medium-sized breweries, which risk an 80% increase in the bottle price, which will raise prices – if the beer can even be bought.
– Some already have a shortage, they simply have no more bottles, says Eichele.
But there is a solution. If more people deposit their bottled bottles, the shortage will be smaller, the brewery association states.