Tourists are drinking all of Cuba's beer

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Tourists are drinking all of Cuba's beer

 

 

As U.S. travelers have increased, Cuba's beer supplies have decreased.

 

That's right: The first clear sign that Cuba will have difficulty keeping up with the influx of American tourists — certain only to increase as restrictions are loosened — is a beer shortage.

 

Good job, America.

 

Demand is so high that Cuba's existing breweries can't keep up, the Costa Rica Star reported. Brewer Bucanero, Cuba's main brewery and a joint venture of the government and Anheuser-Busch InBev, is unable to keep up with demand and will have to import 3 million cases from Dominica to supplement the 19 million it plans to produce.

 

"We have to build a new brewery to cover these requirement of the economy,” said Mayle Gonzalez, a marketing specialist with the Cuban state news agency ACN.

 

Americans, however, don't hold all the responsibility: Tourism to the island increased 17% from 2014 to 2015, to about 3.5 million foreign visitors, according to The Guardian.

 

Americans accounted for 161,000 of those visitors — a 77% increase year over year. Those numbers are expected to continue to grow at a similar pace through this year, putting pressure on the service sector and those who supply it.

 

Cuba is the second most visited Caribbean destination.

 

 

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