Beer (hops) in danger from global climate change

[Mabus]

From the Environmental News Network (http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40478)

In a paper recently published in the Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, a team led by climatologist Martin Mozny of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has found that the quality of Saaz hops -- a delicate variety of hop used to make pilsner lager -- has been decreasing in recent years. Why? It would appear the continuing rise of air temperature in the Czech Republic (where the crops are located) is the culprit.

[villager]

1. Teabaggers are gonna have to come sober to anti-climate protection rallies!?

n/t

[slampoet]

2. I think this is saying no pilsner more than it is saying no beer in general.

Fact is you can make beer from a lot of grains but not exactly the kind of beer Americans (or Czechs or Poles) are used to drinking.

[scubadude]

3. Now this is a disaster! I'm gonna drink all the beer I can while it lasts!

Forgive me for trying to make light of a very serious situation. There is just so much bad news, and this one tipped me...

Scuba

[KansDem]

6. No way! I'm on my way to the liquor store right now and I'm gonna buy it all!

...before you get there...BWAHAHAHAHA!!! IT'S ALL MINE! :beer:

[scubadude]

8. Well, your in Knasas and I'm in Chicago, there's gonna be a disaster in the middle!

Tell you what, if your still standin, I'll bring some beer that will knock you out! :toast:

[KansDem]

13. You're on!

We here in Kansas can always use knock-out beer...the Chicago way!

[Birthmark]

4. That should get people moving on AGW!

[Rick Myers]

5. Now THAT is serious!!!

Don't mess with my beer!!!

[scubadude]

11. Hey, are you Brenda Meyers brother?

If so, we may have tipped a few in days gone by!

Scuba

[HopeHoops]

7. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

:cry:

[Aristus]

9. If this doesn't get the Bud-drinking freepers on board with Global Warming, nothing will.

n/t

[Davis_X_Machina]

14. Are there any hops in Bud?

Bud-drinkers are only threatened if rice production is threatened.

[Aristus]

17. Budweiser is, at least nominally, a pilsner. Pilsners all contain hops.

Then again, Budweiser is a shitty beer, so if only shitty hops are left after global warming does its damage, maybe they'll be all right...

[arbusto_baboso]

22. I love the Miller Lite ads where they say their product is "triple hopped".

So, that means they use, like, 3 hops in the beer? I mean *three actual hop flowers*. 'Cuz you sure can't taste anything other than some stale corn sugars....

[TK421]

10. Why haven't we heard from Obama about this? WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?@@@#

CALL CONGRESS..RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!@!@#$$$

[Mabus]

24. Definitely time for another beer summit

:toast:

[arbusto_baboso]

12. Beer existed long before the use of hops and it will exist long after.

Hops were originally intended more as a preservative than a flavoring agent. With modern refrigeration, hops are only necessary for flavor, and a skillful brewer can reproduce hop-like flavors with any range of ingredients. I should know, because I do it myself.

[Davis_X_Machina]

15. In England, 1524 to be exact....

...it happened that divers things were newly brought into England, whereupon this Rime was made: ‘Turkes, Carps, Hoppes, Piccarell, and Beere, Came into England all in one yeere.’ Sir Richard Baker, Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans' Government unto the Death of King James

[arbusto_baboso]

18. But the Belgians and Czechs were using hops before that.

There's some evidence that the monks at Weihenstephan in Germany were using hops long about 1040.

[maxsolomon]

16. haven't heard anything related to washington state hops

that's where most of Murka's hops come from.

IMHO, if anything, less hops could only improve the flavor of Murkin microbrews.

[frylock]

23. i respectfully disagree..

huge fan of west coast ipa here.

[maxsolomon]

25. really? to me, they all are over-hopped

it's all i can taste (i had a red hook at the mariner's game last night, and sure enough, too many hops), versus the refined flavor of a belgian-style ale.

[Soylent Brice]

19. that's IT!!! call your congresspeople RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!

let's kill these global warming terrorists!!!


oh wait, we're a huge part of the problem.

:hide:

[depakid]

20. They may have to get some from the NorthWest- or from the Kiwi's

http://www.breworganic.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=232

[TheKentuckian]

21. Perhaps now something will be done.

You don't mess with the beer supply.