Flood, Sweat and Cheers for unsung volunteers

Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) will provide up to 4000 cartons of Great Northern beer to hard working State Emergency Service (SES) and Rural Fire Service volunteers to say thank you for their continuing efforts in helping Queenslanders throughout the flood disaster. 

CUB Queensland General Manager Cameron Levick said it was a privilege to make the beer available to SES volunteers and Rural Firefighters who have assisted during this crisis in Brisbane as a part of its ‘Flood, Sweat and Cheers’ campaign. 

“No matter what the emergency or crisis, the SES and Rural Firefighters always give their time and the floods have been no exception. Since Christmas day in flood affected areas there has been SES and Rural Fire Services there to deal with the floods and many have worked constantly without a day off since,” Levick said. “CUB wanted to recognise the volunteers’ efforts in a small way by providing them with Great Northern, a beer brewed at Queensland‟s and Australia‟s biggest brewery at Yatala.” 

Foster’s has committed $500,000 to support the flood relief through a mixture of direct support to affected employees; customer assistance; product donation; and a contribution to the general relief fund. It has also dispatched 216,000 bottles of Torquay water to the flood-affected communities west of Brisbane, which have been left without drinking water.