“Climate change is hurting craft breweries”
Otherwise known in ye ole English as the onset of “winter”.
But American output [of hops] dropped by about a quarter last year, thanks to climate change effects.
-Millenials love craft beers.
-Climate fear mongers need to keep Millenials in butt-puckering states of fear.
-Thus they tell Millienials that climate change will take away their beer.
All quite simple once you learn the dance steps.
They’re starting to run out of “Climate Change is Hurting (Fill in the blank)” stories.
Dozens of breweries have signed on to a “Brewery Climate Declaration,” agreeing to take steps to limit climate change such as using renewable energy sources in their production process.
The idea that using expensive renewable energy sources would have any effect on limiting climate change is insane.
ROTFL! Gotta feel sorry for those “craft breweries”. Imagine how bad it going to be for the marijuana industry. We’re all doomed!
Here in central VA we’re over-run with brew-pubs and they’re all producing over-hopped IPA’s. A balanced IPA is a great drink but stuffing nine times as much hops as you need is crazy.
They could easily cut the hops in these “craft beers” in HALF, and the result would be a better product.
Has anyone besides me noticed that many of these “microbrews” are bitter, hoppy, little potions that bear NO resemblance to real BEER?
Just sayin’.
Budweiser has a bunch of farms growing Hops at the Colorado River on the California side between Needles and the Avi Casino. It is 125 Plus in the Summer and in the 20’s in the Winter.
About changing climate....?
It’s called weather. It changes. Always has. Always will.
Drought? We had a very wet winter last year, and this year may be similar. The Boise river was above flood stage until late July. Our irrigation water was shut off only a couple weeks ago. This sure doesn’t look like drought to me!
Now I gotta break out the dang snowy tahrs...
What an amazing fabrication — [climate change has led to increasingly severe droughts. That’s...] “crippled crops”. US Hop production and yield (which is what would be affected if anything at all was a problem) has been tracked by the USDA for 103 years. Every single year since 2000 has ranked in the top 26 yields except 2016. 2016 has nothing to do with a trend, it is an outlier. BTW, 2016 ranked #45/103 for yield. 13 of the top 16 US hop yields have been achieved since 1999.
The difficulty in obtaining hops is much more about increased demand and nothing much to do with either climate change or reduced supply. US Production (gross tonnage) in 2016 was exceeded by only 1 prior year (2009) in the entire 103 year record. And 2017 saw even greater production.
Talk about fake news, and it was so easy to fact check!