This is the brew would not believe it moment a lorry is filmed on a motorway after it spilt thousands of litres of beer when it shed its load in a crash.

Phone footage filmed in St Petersburg, in Russia, on 22nd April, shows the police blocking off the crash site after looters tried to plunder the load, according to local media reports, which said that a 22-kilometre traffic jam formed as a result.

The crash, caused when the lorry clipped a crash barrier, blocked three lanes of the city's traffic-packed ringroad in the middle of rush hour.

Social media users quickly laughed that people should quit work for the day to "help" clean up the mess.

It is unclear if the lorry driver was injured in the smash.

(Joseph Golder / newsX)