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Could climate change be ruining the taste of your favorite craft beer?
KTAR Local Radio ^ | April 26, 2018 | BY MARK CARLSON

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktar.com ...


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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well-stated (pic). Thanks O.

Heady Topper / Pliny / Enjoy By / Hopslam / Sip of Sunshine / Zombie Dust / Two Hearted BUMP!


41 posted on 04/26/2018 7:13:14 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: tired&retired

>>Is the possible destruction of our beer the most emotionally fearful manipulation the “Loony Left” can fabricate?<<

Next up: MJ won’t grow in “the future.” Leftist panic goes up exponentially. Pot shops in pot-legal sates overrun. Doritos and Cheetos unavailable on store shelves — black market opens up.


42 posted on 04/26/2018 7:19:40 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (robert mueller is an unguided missile)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh no! Not the “craft beer”! We’re doomed! Save us Algore!


43 posted on 04/26/2018 7:36:40 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: CptnObvious

I was in grade school at that time and I remember doing a report on air pollution and pollution in general. At there time there was public hysteria, fomented by the left, that air pollution and pollution in general was, with absolute certainty, going to kill us all by destroying the planet.

I mean there were pollution reports in the media every single day! And of course, as we all know, and I’m sure just coincidentally, the EPA was created in December 1970.


44 posted on 04/26/2018 7:37:38 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why not?

Maybe NOW they will listen to us! /s


45 posted on 04/26/2018 7:39:08 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No, but I’m sure leftists will.


46 posted on 04/26/2018 7:56:13 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; All

Any competent brewer will tell you the modern IPAs, Doubles and Triples are crap. Cloudy crap.

And require absolutely no skill to make.

They are a disgrace to the brewery profession.

If one cannot brew a clear beer, they need to find a job they can do competently.

And if one needs over 40 IBUs to cover the taste of rubber and bananas, you’re a hack.


47 posted on 04/26/2018 7:59:02 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: pas

“Crappy brewing is what is making bad beer.”

Correct.

And that’s AT LEAST 4 out of 5 of the “Craft Brewers” on the market today.

A fancy name a cool label on a bottle of piss.


48 posted on 04/26/2018 8:02:05 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
I don't drink either of those but I have tried them and found them lacking. I posted them as examples to refute the article author's statement

My favorite is Long Trail Double Bag Ale and an occasional Weihenstephaner Korbinian for a smoother less hoppy taste.

49 posted on 04/26/2018 8:53:10 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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To: Mariner

I like Clown Shoes Brewing Company.

They put out a good product at a good price point.


50 posted on 04/26/2018 8:56:14 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Idiocracy is here, and it votes democrat.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

You should try this.

51 posted on 04/26/2018 8:58:39 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Could climate change be ruining the taste of your favorite craft beer?

Nice try, losers.
I guess the desperation can never get too silly.

Climate change? Taste of beer? How bout lipstick? Let's dump the sexism, shall we?

Climate change will get us all.

Go back and dream up another childish reason for us normals to go hide in the closet, or to let the insane continue to waste oxygen...

52 posted on 04/26/2018 10:46:58 AM PDT by publius911 (Declaration: MSM, I am so over watching or listening to bald perverts, thugs and sluts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WINNER of the dumbest article of the month!


53 posted on 04/26/2018 1:36:24 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hirt also is a critic of the Trump administration’s approach to climate change.

Really? Do tell...

54 posted on 04/26/2018 1:40:42 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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55 posted on 04/26/2018 3:24:05 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; 100American; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; ...
I thought that hoppy-@$$ed beers were the rage nowadays. The more hoppy (bitter), the better, right?

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56 posted on 04/26/2018 5:12:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I call BS. 75+% of U.S. grown hops are grown right here in my backyard of the Yakima Valley in Washington state. We haven’t had abnormal weather. It’s always HOT here during the summer growing season.


57 posted on 04/26/2018 5:52:11 PM PDT by PROCON (Repeal the Gun-Free School Zone Act, Protect Our Children!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep AND climate change makes french fries taste bad too...


58 posted on 04/26/2018 9:41:22 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's time to rethink the existence of deep state criminals and the organizations they infiltrated.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; All; Oldeconomybuyer

59 posted on 04/27/2018 4:58:45 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: ExGeeEye

I was still shoveling off the heat on my driveway last week.


60 posted on 04/27/2018 6:12:33 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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