I noticed this little clip of news off N-TV (German commercial news) this morning. If you ever been around Germany, you know that German beer is sold generally in a kasten (crate). These are constructed in a manner that offers maximum protect for the glass containers as they make their way from the brewery to the destination.
2018 is looking great for brewery operations right now, except for one thing.....kastens aren't coming back at the normal rate. Right now, breweries are running at maximum rates...which is a big positive. But some brewery operations are beginning to assess how they will manage the situation with limited number of kastens.
The typical German practice? Germans will go out and buy several kastens at the beginning of summer and store them in their basement or garage. If a guy is noted for having two or three grill-parties during the summer....with a number of guests, then you might go and find three or four varieties of beer, and at least five kastens of beer each.
With the deposit law in effect, each beer bottle has a deposit, and so does the kasten. So there's zero chance that people are throwing the kastens away. I would suspect that a lot of these are getting filled back up with the empties, and the German guy simply hasn't returned his bottles or kastens to the beverage dealer.
N-TV lays out one interesting fact.....Germans hold around 500 million reusable kastens, of which 180 million are beer-related (the rest are water or soda-related).
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