Fuel Shortage Threatens Beer Delivery

On day three of the hurricane Katrina catastrophe, the worst destruction of a US city since the Civil War, the beer industry is pulling itself together. We spoke and/or emailed with many distributors in the affected region, and so far everybody is accounted for, and most have sustained only minor damage. A few distributors are without power and are working to cut routes and process orders without their route accounting systems, writing tickets by hand or switching to peddle sell