How the climate is changing the taste of beer
1 month, 3 weeks ago

How the climate is changing the taste of beer

BBC  

How the climate is changing the taste of beer 7 days ago William Park @williamhpark Getty Images With a fresh fizz and hoppy scent, a cold beer is a drink that touches all of our senses. Trnka and his colleagues say that the traditional crops that brewers rely on to create beer – called noble hops – will become "more difficult to grow". Alpha acids are the key compound in noble hops that give beer its distinctive bitter flavour and Trnka's study concludes that levels of alpha acids will decrease by 31% by 2050. Getty Images By 2050, the levels of alpha acids will decrease by 31% in some of Europe's biggest hop-growing regions, research shows Trnka and his colleagues' climate research focused on noble hop varieties. A recent trend in the US is for "fresh hop beers" which are produced with hops that celebrate the uniqueness of that year's harvest, says Skypeck.

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Wine or beer? Climate change will choose your drink
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Wine or beer? Climate change will choose your drink

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The “indescribable” taste, which is not too sweet nor too bitter, is a mixture of chemical compounds made from three basic ingredients – hops, yeast and malted barley. The production of hops and barley is being threatened by climate change, a study by Mirek Trnka, a researcher at the Global Change Research Institute Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic …

How researchers, farmers and brewers want to safeguard beer against climate change
1 year, 4 months ago

How researchers, farmers and brewers want to safeguard beer against climate change

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A guide to hops and summer beers
2 years, 10 months ago

A guide to hops and summer beers

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A balmy summer evening calls for frothy chilled beer. “Hops are to beer what grapes are to wine,” says Ankur Jain, chief executive officer and founder of Bira 91. Perhaps never before, though, have consumers had access to such variety as craft brewers experiment with hops for bolder flavours, defying the perception that Indians enjoy light wheat beers, like a …

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