German beer glass bottle shortage

Published 25th May, 2022 by Greg Morris

Germany may run out of glass beer bottles by the summer, its national media reports.

Germany's brewers have warned that there might not be enough beer bottles for this coming summer season, the country's media reported.

"We will see shortages by summer at the latest," Holger Eichele, the chief executive of the German brewers' federation (Deutsche Brauer-Bund), told German newspaper Bild, adding that the situation is "extremely tense."

A spokeswoman for Bitburger Brewery told Bild that the demand for glass bottles on the market "currently often exceeds the existing supply."

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Greg Morris

Glass International Editor

Greg Morris has been editor of Glass International and organiser of the Glassman conferences since 2012, specialising in glass packaging. Prior to this he spent five years working in newspaper journalism.