No, we will not return to normal life yet. Cinemas will not see us soon crying over a romantic scene or sweating in fear during a chase. Sunday barbecues will not find us sitting at a long table with other night owls either. At least not for the next few weeks in Mexico City. The return to essentials announced by Claudia Sheinbaum has as its starting point the reactivation of construction work, mining, transport equipment manufacturing, and beer production: yes, for everyone's peace of mind, beer will be back in CDMX.In convenience stores, the scene was somewhat apocalyptic. In the back, the refrigerators we always turned to for a six-pack now displayed only one or two sad beers if we were lucky. At the beginning of April, López-Gatell announced the suspension of beer production, a beloved liquid in the national diet.No, we are not the Czech Republic with a per capita consumption of 138 liters per person, but national beer consumption reaches 75 liters per person annually. The decision to suspend took most by surprise since, in addition, we are the world's leading beer exporter and, with the exception of a handful of countries, the rest of the world refused to make such a significant decision.The return of beer supply to CDMX not only brings peace to Sunday
barbacoa, whose best pairing is a nice cold one, but also to the beer industry and the families that depend on it, because as Fernando Rincón, Communication Advisor of Acermex, states, in the case of craft breweries, it results in the generation of more than five thousand jobs.There is no doubt that if anyone suffered from this suspension, it has been the craft breweries, where cash flow is quite limited. “Just one weekend with dry laws is very heavy for producers.” Furthermore, he claims “that during this time staff were cut, salaries were reduced, and small breweries were the most affected,” in addition to the fact that their consumption occurs more in restaurants and bars whose operations have also been diminished.To celebrate a great city news, how about
some easy dishes that are prepared with
beer? Preparing them with family, with good energy, is the complete celebration.