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Tourists are drinking Cuba out of their beer

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With a surge in tourism, Cuba is now experiencing a scarcity of beer.
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With recently restored relations between Cuba and the United States, tourism in Cuba is on the rise, which is mostly a good thing, only that the country seems to be running out of beer.

Reports say demand for beer in Cuba is now so high that existing breweries in the country can't keep up.

According to reports from the Costa Rica Star, Cuba's main brewery, Brewer Bucanero, and a joint venture of the government and Anheuser-Busch InBev, are unable to keep up with demand and will have to import 3 million cases from Dominica to supplement the 19 million it plans to produce.

Speaking on the development, Mayle Gonzalez, a marketing specialist with the Cuban state news agency, ACN said the country has "to build a new brewery to cover these requirement of the economy".

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According to The Guardian, tourism to the island increased 17% from 2014 to 2015, to about 3.5 million foreign visitors, with Americans constituting 161,000 of those visitors.

Cuba is currently the second most visited Caribbean destination and the number of tourists to the nation is expected to keep increasing.

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