No change to pay for your pint of beer?
Never mind, this brewery in Munich offers you another payment option: swap a liter of sunflower oil for the same amount of beer.
The one of your choice.
"All because we had no more oil in the kitchen and so we had to be creative," explains Erik Hoffmann, manager of the Giesinger brewery.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the world's largest exporter of sunflower oil, shortages have been felt in Germany and throughout Europe.
“It's complicated to get oil because you'll buy it in a supermarket, like any other consumer.
And so we are rationed, we can only buy it in small quantities.
And if you need 30 liters in a week and you can only get 15, you won't even be able to fry a schnitzel anymore.
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Here, customers are happy to help.
But above all, to buy beer at a low price.
“I brought 80 liters of sunflower oil with me and received 80 liters of beer in return.
I took a bit of everything: wheat beer, light beer, Shandy…”, enumerates Moritz Baller, a customer who returns from Ukraine.
“I think it's a great initiative!
To have cheap beer and then, it also benefits the brewery which is suffering from the shortage of oil in Germany.
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