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The climate crisis is coming for your hoppy beer
(www.cnn.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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I’m old enough to remember (just barely) drinking before the hop craze, and I when it first started and there were more beer choices I thought it was great, because sometimes I like some hop forwardness. But then everything became hops and way to much and microbrews started offering like 10ipas and nothing else and i just want a damn hefeweisen (or any wheat) and theres just one option among 50 ipas and extra triple ultra ipas or whatever..
Heres hoping for a bigger variety of choices.
Don't forget your sense of taste changes as you age, there's a reason old farts drink cheap rice/wheat lagers with subtle flavor profiles.
That said, the first IPA I had was from Summit Brewing in Minneapolis back in the middle 90's and it was nothing like the pine-cone flavored versions which are everywhere today.