Labatt Halts Production At St. John’s Plant Due To Water Concerns

From CBC:

With the City of St. John’s warning people not to drink discoloured water, a local brewery is putting production on hold.

Labatt spokesperson Wade Keller told CBC’s St. John’s Morning Show that the company’s Leslie Street brewery has been forced to stop making beer until they get more information about the water situation.

“Obviously you can’t make beer without water. We produce a lot of beer, especially this time of year,” said Keller, adding that over the course of a year Labatt makes 150,000 hectolitres of beer. One hectolitre is the equivalent of a two-dozen 12-packs of beer — or more than 43 million bottles of beer.