Posted on 08/23/2020 12:58:55 PM PDT by PROCON
For years, an increasing number of scientists have warned about the side effects of climate change like rising oceans and unpredictable changes in weather patterns.
But this may be the most serious repercussion of climate change identified to date: Beer may taste different.
That's according to the research of Colleen Doherty, an associate professor of molecular and structural biochemistry at N.C. State University.
Doherty studies the connections between time and stress in plants, according to the university. In a recent post on the university's website, she explained how changing temperatures will affect hops and other beer ingredients.
Growers have cultivated different varieties of hops that produce different chemical compounds in order to provide distinctive flavors in beers.
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Bump for later. Funny!
That does it, selling both of my SUV’s!
It is indeed old...I only update it infrequently (when I copy it to the forum) and I don’t save the changes, so you are probably right
If it weren’t so true...it would be even funnier!
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