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[quote:1dgm5bvc]The price of beer is likely to rise in coming decades because climate change will hamper the production of a key grain needed for the brew - especially in Australia[/quote:1dgm5bvc]

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Yeah I know millions will die and the global ecosystem will be massively damaged but if it stops VB being made there is an upside. I have left my car engine running all day just to speed things along.

Is anyone planning to go into hop production in Wexford? What temperature changes are needed to allow vineyards?

Nice to see VB phased out, but it would be the smaller breweries that fade away as bigger breweries have spare cash and can out bid the smaller ones..... more worrying.... would ya want to pay €10 a pint to keep these breweries meeting there profit margins???????
The bigger breweries have already produced beer that tastes like beers with zero malt... we have a world of chemical replacements to look forward to!!!!

The bigger guys can recycle their CO2, and will likely get tasty grants from the government for being environmentally friendly. It's always the little guys who suffer, I'm afraid.

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Not that related to global warming. Is it time to go back to gruit?

&amp;quot;Hendrixcat&amp;quot;:3h44x7an wrote: The bigger guys can recycle their CO2, and will likely get tasty grants from the government for being environmentally friendly. It's always the little guys who suffer, I'm afraid.[/quote:3h44x7an]

They can't recycle the carbon that is used to boil/cool transport the beer. The carbon released by the yeast in fermentation is renewable and will be absorbed in the newt grown season. no real environmental benefited but it sounds good.

If they want to be green they could look at fuel produce from spent grain and or processing if their waster water

&amp;quot;a_friend_in_mead&amp;quot;:srb26lwf wrote: [quote:srb26lwf]Is anyone planning to go into hop production in Wexford? What temperature changes are needed to allow vineyards?[/quote:srb26lwf]

Unfortunately part of the hop shortage is due to the lack of hop harvesting/process machinery, unless you have a few million to spare

&amp;quot;a_friend_in_mead&amp;quot;:srb26lwf wrote: Not that related to global warming. Is it time to go back to gruit?[/quote:srb26lwf][/quote:srb26lwf]

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