Twin City Brewing Company in Port Alberni has been watching its malt supply shrink day by day, with the community cut-off by the ongoing closure of Highway 4 on Vancouver Island.
“Everyone has had to adapt,” said owner Aaron Colyn, whose brewery regularly has malt shipped on a pallet through a carrier from the mainland.
“But right now, our supplier has a bit of a backlog because they chose not to use the detour,” Colyn said. “So we have an order of grain that’s hung-up in limbo somewhere, and we’re not expecting that anytime soon.”
It’s yet another example of the far-reaching impacts of the wildfire-prompted highway closure
