Could climate change be ruining the taste of your favorite craft beer?

KTAR Local Radio ^ | April 26, 2018 | BY MARK CARLSON

[Oldeconomybuyer]

PHOENIX - Craft beer is a $1 billion industry in Arizona, but a warmer environment has many in the industry worried about its future.

The business owners who run craft beer businesses were concerned about future water shortages and even the flavor of a key beer ingredient: Hops.

Professor Paul Hirt, an environmental history teacher at Arizona State University and a Salt River Project board member, said climate change affects the taste of beer through hops.

“Hotter summers are creating more of the bitter profile that brewers are not looking for,” Hirt said.

Hirt added the battle is over high temperatures, growing hops and creating popular beer flavors that consumers want.

Hirt also is a critic of the Trump administration’s approach to climate change.

“We have all kinds of federal agencies that are being told ‘don’t admit we have a problem, don’t admit we have challenges to face.’ This is not how we solve problems,” Hirt said.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[tomkat]

Professor Paul Hirt, an environmental history teacher

IOW, as useless as tits on a bull.

[Jim from C-Town]

If it gets any hotter in Phoenix beer is the least of their worries. Spontaneous combustion would be right at the top of their concerns. They're already only a mile from the sun!

[GMMC0987]

You’d think that will all of the negative effects of “climate change”, that there would be at least one thing that’s a positive. If so it’s harder to find than a unicorn.

[eyeamok]

but a warmer environment has many in the industry worried about its future.

Dear Professor,
PUT THE PIPE DOWN, Stick to booze.

[windsorknot]

Why not? The list of “climate change” effects is endless.

[dinodino]

No, but reading stupid articles about “climate change” is ruining the taste of my favorite craft beer...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“Hotter summers are creating more of the bitter profile that brewers are not looking for,”

Oh....I beg to differ.

[Red Badger]

There going after the Beer!................

[ExGeeEye]

We’ve just got through a six-month winter. It’s Michigan, but still, six months?

[dead]

Climate change ate my baby!!

[Yo-Yo]

Could climate change be ruining the taste of your favorite craft beer?

No. Next question.

[libertylover]

but a warmer environment has many in the industry worried about its future.

Why? It's been my observation that beer drinkers drink more beer in warmer weather.

[gunnyg]

knew THEY would eventually drag me DIPA into THEIR BS!

[chrisser]

I bet if we started harvesting liberal tears, we could offset the water shortages. Might even improve the taste of the beer enough to offset the ruined hops.

[onedoug]

No.

[RayChuang88]

What’s going to happen is that we’ll see more consumption of “dry” beer like Asahi Dry.

[robroys woman]

They are only getting better.

[Obadiah]

Oh, for the love of pete!

Celebrities and globull warming, is there anything they don't know or can't do? It's like these are two immutable forces. I am convinced people are losing their minds.

[robroys woman]

We had a brutal one here in KY as well. And how’s the northeast doing?