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.
This is good - but it shouldn’t be so remarkable that it warrants a major headline. Where are other large companies? For that matter, where are the Romneys? the Waltons? the Ricketts? other millionaires?
Praying?
I’ve seen bottled water but never canned water. Is this a regional thing?
I would guess it is more because they are equipped to handle making canned beverages, but not plastic bottles since that isn’t really a thing with beer.
Finally, a dramatic improvement in the taste of Budweiser Beer…