World: The frightening way climate change will affect beer

Climate change has led to regions known for growing hops needing to find new strategies to sustain what they produce for breweries. A recent report via Sentinel, outlined how human-caused climate damage was impacting water access and weather patterns in the Willamette Valley. Gayle Goschie, a fourth generation hop farmer based about an hour outside Portland, Oregon, warned that climate change “was not coming any longer, it was here”. The Sentinel highlighted how climate change is anticipated to further the challenges that farmers and brewers are already seeing in two key beer crops: hops and barley. It outlined how some hops and barley growers across the US admit that they have already seen crops impacted by extreme heat, drought and unpredictable growing seasons. In a study from the Czech Academy of Sciences, researchers recently warned that, unless swift adaptations are developed, European hops will be increasingly difficult to grow due to climate change affecting yields and ...