No More Beer!
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
Today’s silly climate scare from the BBC:
Climate change threatens to "call time" on the great British pint.
But scientists are working with the brewing industry to help save it.
Hops give bitter its taste but the plant doesn’t like the hotter, drier conditions we’ve experienced in recent decades and production has plummeted.
Researchers in Kent are isolating hop genes in the hope of producing more climate-change resilient varieties.
They also want to produce more intense flavours that are now becoming popular.
"Without it, the British pint is going to die off," Danielle Whelan of the Shepherd Neame brewery said of the work.
"We are just going to be importing beer and we won’t have the culture that goes with it anymore."
Warmer, drier conditions have also affected the trademark bitter flavour hops gives beer. And the worry is that because of climate change, the problem is only going to get worse. Eddie Gadd, the head brewer at Ramsgate Brewery said that it was already having an impact.
"Climate change is very relevant to me," he said.
"I buy most of my hops from Kent and I’ve seen the harvests over the past 10 or 12 years going up and down. It has been a real rollercoaster.
"The growers have been feeling the impact and the search for drought-resistant genes is going to be exceptionally important."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68636451
As usual, the facts are the opposite of the BBC’s concocted story.
Over the last decade, both hop outputs and yields have proven to be remarkably stable, in comparison to earlier decades.
https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#compare
As for the idea that a slightly warmer climate will destroy the hop industry, the south of England marks the northern edge of climate suitable for commercial hop production.
If hops can be successfully grown places like Central Europe, which have much hotter summers, they certainly won’t have any problems in Kent!
https://beermaverick.com/between-the-35th-and-55th-parallels-worlds-hop-production/
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
I seem to recall that beer was under threat a few years ago because grain production was in danger from climate change. That story was completely at odds with the truth as well.
God save us from beer brewed by climate scientists 🙂
Due to climate change, pointless, inaccurate reports /papers are increasing.
If you don’t squeeze climate change in somewhere getting funding and getting published is a real problem (unlike climate change of course). Ambitious academics know the score.
They couldn’t even wait until April 1st!!
Nearly spilt my pint…. CAMRA is going to become more important as our “betters” import wine for themselves and beer for the proles in London only, all in the name of saving the planet. Tractors in London need to be followed rapidly by Tumbrils!
Why did that idiot woman say we would be importing beer? Worst case we import hops (as we do now anyway) and keep brewing here. Heaven forbid they have to grow hops in Scotland.
Worry is that it seems some breweries are employing idiots.
822AD, first written mention of hopped beer in England, ‘despite’ the Medieval Warm Period when temperatures were higher than now.
Harvests ‘go up and down’ – who knew? 🙄
Laughable how stuff predicted by a model in the future somehow happens now despite not actually happening.
Eddie Gadd Ramsgate Brewery – just Google his name and there’s an article about how he’s installed a CO2 recovery unit to save the planet.
His beer must be pretty flat then…
I seem to recall that, at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, there was a nationwide shortage of beverage grade carbon dioxide. This lead many brewers to install CO2 recovery systems to save them money.
The question for Mr Gadd then is what happens to the recovered CO2. Is it being buried in underground storage or is it being used add ‘fizz’ to drinks?
Not that either answer will make the slightest difference to global temperatures but the latter smacks of something short of honesty.
Good point!
Eddie Gadd is a wide boy chancer but clearly clever enough to get free advertising on the BBC.
There is a wonderful synergy here, the BBC need to produce vehicle articles to pump their propaganda but cannot carry overtly paid for articles. Businesses would love to advertise on the BBC (especially for free) so they provide the vehicle news story ( with a little bit of funding here and there) and the BBC call it news and carry it. Brown paper envelopes full of cash behind the lavs magically change hands unseen to “hard up” journos. Corrupption drools K.O.
Best come to the Hop Festival to check out supplies. Sadly missed during the plague but getting back on track.
https://www.favershamhopfestival.org/
Beer today, gone tomorrow. Give me strength!
production has plummeted
Liar, liar, . . . . Production is up. WAY up. I never cease to be amazed by the commies lying about things that can be easily checked. They probably trust their sources and never do simple checks. They have the flaw of not comprehending reasonableness in what they hear – they can’t detect bull$#|+.
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/hopsan21.pdf#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20hop%20yield%2C%20at%201%2C900%20pounds,16%20percent%20and%20Oregon%20accounted%20for%2011%20percent.
Last week, it was a chocolate shortage cause by climate change.
This week, it’s a beer shortage.
Next week, it will be a coffee shortage.
Eteffingcetera.
As long as the wine is good in our future mediterranean climate I dont care as I dont like beer.
What about cider though? as that is currently produced in italy and France I guess it will be ok.
That’s next week’s scary report.
Cider production in the UK has suffered because heavy taxation has cut demand. Actual tax revenue has been in decline for over a decade: the Laffer curve at work.
project fear alive and well.
I had to check the calendar when I read this latest nonsense.
I’ve wondered for a couple of decades why climate activists haven’t demanded the banning of beer and soda. They are full of carbon dioxide! Every carbonated drink helps to destroy the planet! Activists openly want to ban meat and internal combustion engines, so why are beer and soda off the list?