
Northern Michigan Breweries are reportedly facing losses for the shortage of aluminium cans. Russell Springsteen, owner of Right Brain Brewery, a microbrewery that serves its own brands of brews in a creative, industrial site, has reported that they started getting a heads up about the possible shortage of aluminium cans during this time last year.

The problems with aluminium can supply in Northern Michigan began much before the onset of COVID-19, according to Short’s Brewing Company CEO Scott Newman-Bale. He said, “With tariffs coming in, that kind of amped it up to the next level, and then what really pushed it over the edge was COVID where people are just at home consuming.”
Newman-Bale added that his brewing company requires approximately 12 million cans a year. Right now, it has 1 and a half million cans in stock. Mr Bale is more worried about the next year, which he thinks will turn into a much more problematic scenario.
But Right Brain Brewery is already experiencing a tough situation at present. It has half a pallet, which will serve only half of the next order locally on the board.
Both the brewing companies anticipate this condition to continue until 2025.
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