Anheuser-Busch Brewery Ships Water To Red Cross To Help Harvey Relief Efforts

This Tuesday Aug. 5, 2014 photo shows Rick Shippey, senior general manager at Anheuser-Busch’s brewery, peers into a brew kettle at the facility on at the brewery's lab in Williamsburg, Va. One of the major things ... This Tuesday Aug. 5, 2014 photo shows Rick Shippey, senior general manager at Anheuser-Busch’s brewery, peers into a brew kettle at the facility on at the brewery's lab in Williamsburg, Va. One of the major things that separate home brewers from professional brewers is being able to not only brew a great beer but the exact same beer over and over again. (AP Photo/Michael Felberbaum) MORE LESS
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CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — An Anheuser-Busch brewery in Georgia is shipping canned drinking water to the American Red Cross to help Hurricane Harvey relief efforts in Texas and Louisiana.

The St. Louis-based beer giant says a truckload of water from its Cartersville, Georgia, brewery arrived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Monday. More truckloads are scheduled to arrive in Arlington, Texas. More than 155,000 cans of water are being sent in total.

Anheuser-Busch says it periodically stops beer production at times throughout the year in order to can drinking water at the Georgia facility so it can be ready to go in times of need. The company says it has provided more than 76 million cans of drinking water for disaster relief since 1988.

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