AUSTRALIAN BEER SHORTAGE
CANBERRA, March 20.
The beer shortage in Australia is likely to become acute owing to the lack of barley. The authorities fear that any lessening of the already inadequate supplies will accentuate black marketing.
Australia's barley crop is so small that tests are now being conducted with Canadian malting barley. This presents special brewing problems, but if these can be overcome Australia will seek to secure barley needed for beer from Canada. Australia's barley crop is 20 per cent, below its minimum requirements.
The beer shortage is being aggravated by the difficulty of getting men to work as maltsters, and also because supplies of bottles are inadequate. It. is understood that unless Canadian grain proves suitable and sufficient shipping is found for imports, a reduction of beer supplies is inevitable.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 68, 21 March 1945, Page 5
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