by Kaelan Deese, Breaking News Reporter | | April 26, 2021 12:45 PM
The Colorado-based company New Belgium Brewing released a beer that purposely tastes bad to illustrate how climate change may affect the beer industry.
New Belgium Brewing made its flavor, “Torched Earth Ale,” using “less-than-ideal ingredients that would be available and affordable to brewers in a climate-ravaged future without aggressive action now to confront the climate crisis,” the company said on April 19.
Some low-quality ingredients used in the process include dandelions as opposed to traditional hops. The brew also uses smoke-tainted water and drought-resistant grains to provide an added “climate-ravaged” flavor.
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“Like every part of our economy, the brewing industry is in the crosshairs of climate change,” the company said. “As the crisis grows unabated, traditional ingredients like barley would be far more expensive as growing regions shrink due to increased temperatures.”
The brewery said it hopes its new flavor will “highlight the stakes of climate change for beer lovers everywhere.”
New Belgium Brewing’s brand Fat Tire became the first certified carbon neutral beer in the United States last year, with plans to be completely carbon neutral by 2030.
The beer company has delved into politics before. In 2014, the company created the New Belgium Federal PAC to donate to candidates and causes that can help the craft brewing community, including environmental policy.
HT/Neo
I read the second word of the article and stopped reading… only drugged up leftists high on reefa actually think crap beer is a good idea… their synapse-limited minds says the beer from the FUTURE (that only God knows) is bad but they actually made beer that tastes like wet dog today…. so the future is now?
My guess is he burnt his malt, and his ‘climate action’ posturing is just a cover for his screw up.
This guy looks like a huge D-Bag.
Why not beer made with dandelion roots imitating potatoes and grains? Dandelion provides it’s own bitterness, no need for hops…
Of course the tattooed idiot is unable to name a country so hot today that it cannot make beer. Let alone make beer in Colorado based upon temperatures he is unable to personally identify.
Don’t they know that they grow similar crops from Mexico to middle Alberta? These predictions of doom are so over the top they are hilarious – of course the policy implications are quite serious.
Look at a map of average ground temperature. You will see that the alarmist temperature rises are about the same as the ground temperature difference between No. Illinois (Indiana) and southern Illinois. They grow similar crops in both areas. They actually grow similar crops from Mexico well into Alberta – drive through Grande Prairie, AB in the summer and look at the corn crop.