CLIMATE change could send the price of beer rocketing because it might hamper the production of a key grain needed for the brew, a scientist has warned.
Jim Salinger, a climate scientist at New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, said environmental changes will probably cause a decline in the production of malting barley in parts of New Zealand and Australia.
Mr Salinger told the Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention: “It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up.”
Similar effects could be expected worldwide.
He warned climate change could cause a drop in beer production within 30 years, especially in parts of Australia, as dry areas become worse and water shortages worsen.
Barley growing parts of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales would likely be harder hit than growing areas in New Zealand’s South Island.
“Most areas in Australia where malting barley is cropped are likely to experience producing declines,” he said.
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http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4087/snn0838gx682465420aby2.jpgThis is not good,While i was in Europe i drank everything that passed my lushes lips ( Beer and Wine ) I think it's becoming clear to me to start looking seriously at a move!!.I will live in Belgium though,Holland has too many damn rules and tax's.They do have Belgian consulate is in Terneuzen....I let my feelings known.
I like beer It makes me a jolly drunk fellow. I like beer It makes me a jolly drunk fellow. whiskey to much Champiane not enough. And beer won't makes my peter wither I like beer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! GTO
