18 Jan 2023

Beer breweries dip into back-up stock as CO2 shortage hits

From Morning Report, 7:17 am on 18 January 2023

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If you're missing your eggs on toast at the moment, brace yourself for another shortage.

Beer breweries are being forced to stop production due to a lack of carbon dioxide.

The last remaining domestic CO2 plant paused operations due to safety concerns before Christmas, which has heightened a long-term strain on supply.

Garage Project is one of the country's largest craft beer breweries, and it ran out of CO2 at one of it's sites yesterday.

Co-founder Jos Ruffell spoke to Charlotte Cook.