Will There Be a Shortage of Corona This Summer?

From the Business Insider:

Corona fans might have a good reason to panic this summer—and it’s not because of a lime shortage like last year.

WSJ is reporting that Constellation Brands (which owns Corona, Modelo, and Pacifico) has seen such a huge increase in Corona sales, it’s worried that it can’t keep up with demand.

The reason: Corona has proven almost too popular for its own good. Constellation now ships 10 percent more Coronas in 2015 than it did in 2010. As we pointed out in March, it’s the fifth most popular beer in the U.S., and the top imported beer overall.

Constellation is currently undertaking a $1.5 billion expansion of the main Corona brewery along the Texas-Mexico border to help meet demand. Additionally, it’s trying to find a good home in California for an even larger brewery that could outpace the first one’s output by 2018.

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