Pubs could run out of beer because of ban on deliveries along VIP route

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The Brewery Logistics Group, which represents all major brewers, claims that the Games is the "ultimate nightmare" for making deliveries to pubs and clubs.

BLG has complained it faces a logistics crisis because it cannot carry out its normal daytime deliveries to pubs and clubs that are on the 109-mile Olympic Route Network.

Seven hundred bars and clubs that receive deliveries from BLG are situated on the network. The special "Zil lanes" will be in operation on a third of the network and are typically closed to all but official Games traffic from 6am until midnight, making daytime deliveries difficult.

BLG is hampered in switching to night-time deliveries because of noise-abatement laws and strict rules setting out routes to be used by lorries weighing 18 tonnes or more.

Mike Bracey, the group's chairman, said: "The Olympics for us is the ultimate nightmare and time is running out to find a solution. London Councils and Locog are standing in the way of the solutions we have proposed about altering our routes and operating times."

He added: "But if there is no breakthrough then our members will have to either meet huge costs in getting the deliveries through or the beer won't arrive at all."

A London Councils spokesman said: "We have already agreed a light-touch enforcement approach for the Games, and have discussed this with industry including the Brewery Logistics Group."