Beer faces unbitter future due to climate change: study
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Climate change threatens the cultivation in Europe of aromatic hops which gives beer its bitterness, according to a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications.
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Hops in major beer-producing European countries have been ripening earlier and producing less since 1994. And, perhaps most alarmingly for the IPA lovers of the world, they are starting to lose their critical bitter component.
Climate change threatens the cultivation in Europe of aromatic hops which gives beer its bitterness, according to a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications.
