Posted on 04/26/2018 6:40:03 AM PDT by 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.
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My business revolves 100% around craft beer and this doesn’t worry me in the slightest. I’m a blacksmith and make high-end custom bottle openers. You wouldn’t believe what I’ve sold some for. I love my job. I get to drink beer and pound on hot metal every day.
Crappy brewing is what is making bad beer.
I have been away from the news for a little while. Can someone tell me which number is larger - Hillary’s excuses for losing or the number of GW disaster claims.
I’m waiting for some “scientist” to claim The Shrew lost because of GW.
Monsanto is working on a custom-yeast that will mimic the taste profile of hops.
The marketing of “Y-hop” will complement the company’s line of artificial vanilla.
The entire Y-hop plant will be solar powered and use tertiary water from Flint, Michigan.
Samuel Adams has been off my beer list ever since they went pro-homo over St. Patrick’s Day Parade sponsorship.
It’s not the climate. Hopped up craft beer tastes like crap anyway.
In Pennsylvania, we are looking for Spring to start after the Memorial Day Weekend.
Well played sir!
The End Came in 2000? Who Knew?
How big of a temperature change have we seen in the last 50 years?
Oh yeah, we’re talking fractions of a degree. Might that have just a single positive benefit??? Bueller??? Anyone???
No, of course, it’s a disaster for beer. smh.
Is it me or are we seeing another wave of climate change “studies”?
No it happened in 1975, or maybe in the 80s?
No it happened in 1975, or maybe in the 80s?
Great point, and has the interested facet that, when there are two opposite/complementary effects, BOTH are negative.
For example: Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty
trees less colourful, trees more colourful,
Though my drinking days are (thankfully) history, I’d suspect that the only problem any whining brewers are facing is one of sub-par competence.
In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
Option 1: Grow your hops another 50 miles north of today's hops, where the temperatures under even the worst predictions will be the same as they are for hops fields today.
Option 2: Panic. Do not in any way adapt to these hypothetical changes if they happen to occur. Win bonus points as the World'sBiggestVictim.
Those on the left love being superheroes who save the world. They also love being victims and racking up more victim points than anyone else in history. I still cannot tell which of those fantasies they prefer. [Note: Jews don't get any victim points. Ever. Holocaust? Old news. Pogroms? The same. Slavery in Babylon and in Egypt? Even older news.]
Hot weather only presents a problem during storage and shipping, not during the brewing process.
The compounds in hops that are responsible for bitterness in beer are the alpha acids. They are humulone, cohumulone and adhumulone. All three are bitter, and occur in varying proportions depending on the hop variety. These are measured and added according to the desired flavor in the beer.
A few years ago I purchased a case of Ommegang Abbey Ale beer, made in Cooperstown NY. The beer had a hot peppery taste that almost made it unpalatable. This is usually a superb beer.
I called Randy Thiel, the brewmaster at the time for Ommegang, whom I have know as one of the best brewmasters in the world (previously he was at a Belgian Trappist Brewery)
and he explained that the beer uses “grains of paradise” a type of spice from Africa that has unique characteristics. When a shipper or distributor has the beer in a warm area, the peppery flavor of the grains of paradise becomes very strong.
I can’t see climate change, or global warming impacting the quality of beer except to make it taste better and more refreshing in the warmer weather!
Is the possible destruction of our beer the most emotionally fearful manipulation the “Loony Left” can fabricate?
They need to switch from weed to beer to heal their brain.
thanks...sometimes I get a hit and other times a face-plant.
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