Next Up on Climate Change List: Hoppy Beer

Shift the growing window northward. Problem solved.

How do they even come up with these numbers?

IPAs

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And, perhaps most alarmingly for the IPA lovers of the world, they are starting to lose their critical bitter component.

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This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A lot of these breweries seem to think that they just need to make their IPAs super bitter and it will be good. The over bitterness masks their shitty brewing and shitty beer.

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Hops in major beer-producing European countries like Germany, Czech Republic and Slovenia are ripening earlier and producing less since 1994, scientists found.

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Meh, since 1994 is a stretch. The hop harvest yields have been in flux for awhile across the globe. But that's natural. However, the recent harvests over the past 2 or 3 years have been down in Europe. In America, i believe our yields have not diminished any.

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they are starting to lose their critical bitter component.

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This is due to shitty growing conditions. Yes, it may be due to "global warming". But, that is the natural cyclical global warming. Leftists has bastardized the term to mean man-made GW. Which is not true. Anyway, shifting of climate is causing more stress on the hop fields in europe, thus reducing the Alpha acids.

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Hop yields could decline by as much as 18% by 2050, and their alpha acid content – which makes beer bitter – could decrease by up to 31% due to hotter and drier conditions,

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This is just sensationalism. Craft industry is pretty liberal. However, capitalism and liberalism doesn't mix, which may be why so many breweries have a short shelf life.