Three ways climate change is going to ruin your beer

[LiberalElite]

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/07/3446248/climate-change-beer-water/

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Water is beer’s primary ingredient, and brewers are worried about having enough.

In 2011, it took brewing giant Anheuser-Busch Inbev 3.5 barrels of water to produce 1 barrel of beer. Due to concerns over drought and shrinking water supplies, the world’s largest brewer set a goal to drop that number to 3.25 barrels by 2012. It met that goal, and this week, Pete Kraemer, the company’s vice president for supply said that they had shrunk that number down to 3.15 barrels, with plans to drop it still further. For context, their plant in Houston alone produces 12 million barrels of beer each year.
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[cyberswede]

1. Ok..so NOW maybe people will get serious...

Interesting article. Thanks!

[Uncle Joe]

2. This is actually a pretty good little article,

whatever it takes to get the message across.

Thanks for the thread, LiberalElite.

[Stryst]

3. Cleaning and sterilizing

My carboys uses as much, if not more water than actualy goes into my wort. I've always wondered if switching to UV lamps and non-bleach cleaners could save much of that. But how much water does it waste to make cleaning chemicals, or to generate the power to run he UV lamps? And even then I don't really have a solid concept of how much water the barley and hops take to grow. Or if different sources are more water efficient.

[name not needed]

4. "it took brewing giant Anheuser-Busch Inbev 3.5 barrels of water to produce 1 barrel of beer"

Well that explains the taste.