Amid pandemic, debate rages in Mexico: Is beer essential?
Craft beer in L.A. has boomed over the last decade. Now, the coronavirus pandemic is putting it in peril.First, on April 6, the Agriculture Department sent a letter to major breweries that could be read as inviting them to restart production. But that drew a swift rebuke from the government’s coronavirus point man, assistant health secretary Hugo López-Gatell.
The next day, the Agriculture Department issued a statement saying it had never meant to authorize reopening the breweries. Instead, the department said, it was only trying to encourage breweries to keep buying Mexican farmers’ barley crops.
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