Anheuser Busch Stops Production ...

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to send water to Texas and Louisiana.



Anheuser-Busch Sends Three Truckloads of Emergency Drinking Water for Hurricane Relief

Anheuser-Busch is delivering three truckloads - over 155,000 cans - of emergency drinking water to help communities in the Gulf Coast area in response to Hurricane Harvey.

An initial truckload was sent from Anheuser-Busch’s Cartersville brewery in Georgia and delivered to the American Red Cross in Baton Rouge on Monday, August 28 with the generous help of Mockler Beverage, one of Anheuser-Busch’s wholesaler partners. Two additional truckloads are being sent to an American Red Cross facility in Arlington, Texas scheduled to arrive in the coming days.

The Cartersville brewery halts production periodically throughout the year to prepare canned drinking water so as to be ready to help American communities in times of need. This clean, safe emergency drinking water was already canned and ready to be shipped when the Red Cross issued an urgent request to support communities hit by Hurricane Harvey.

“Putting our production and logistics strengths to work by providing safe, clean drinking water is the best way we can help in these situations” said Bill Bradley, Anheuser-Busch’s Vice President for Community Affairs.
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Anheuser-Busch has a longstanding tradition of providing water and supplies to those affected by natural disasters nationwide. In 2016, Anheuser-Busch produced and shipped emergency drinking water to communities hit by natural disasters, including the California wildfires, the Louisiana floods and Hurricane Matthew. Since 1988, the St. Louis-based brewer has provided over 76 million cans of drinking water to aid disaster-stricken areas.
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[OddBall]

That's really noble and all, but wouldn't the community be better served with some emergency beer?

[04 commemorative]

Great that they are doing that

[VatorMan]

Coors could just send a few trucks of Coors Light. Can't tell the difference between water and that anyway.

[NavyC5]

I remember when they did that for Katrina, still have a few cans of it around here somewhere.

[mrvette]

A few truckloads, although NICE, don't sound like much for a city with 20 billion people and spread out from Mejico to Nawleens.....

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Originally Posted by mrvette

A few truckloads, although NICE, don't sound like much for a city with 20 billion people and spread out from Mejico to Nawleens.....

Every little bit helps.