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Climate Change Finally Impacts Important Industry
Socguy writes "According to a New Zealand scientist, Jim Salinger, the price of beer in and around Australia is going to be under increasing upward pressure as reductions in malting barley yields are experienced as a side effect of our ongoing climate shift.
"It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up," Mr. Salinger told the Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention."
Think of the children!
and I believe Gordon Parsons summed it up with a song.....
(though I'm not terribly sure it was origionally his)
Pub with no Beer
It's lonesome away from your kindred and all
By the campfire at night where the wild dingos call
But there's nothin' so lonesome, so dull or so drear
Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer
Now the publican's anxious for the quota to come
There's a faraway look on the face of the bum
The maid's gone all cranky and the cook's acting queer
What a terrible place is a pub with no beer
The stockman rides up with his dry, dusty throat
He breasts up to the bar, pulls a wad from his coat
But the smile on his face quickly turns to a sneer
When the barman says suddenly: "The pub's got no beer!"
There's a dog on the verandah, for his master he waits
But the boss is inside drinking wine with his mates
He hurries for cover and he cringes in fear
It's no place for a dog round a pub with no beer
Then in comes the swagman, all covered with flies
He throws down his roll, wipes the sweat from his eyes
But when he is told he says, "What's this I hear?
I've trudged fifty flamin' miles to a pub with no beer!"
Old Billy, the blacksmith, the first time in his life
Has gone home cold sober to his darling wife
He walks in the kitchen; she says: "You're early, me dear"
Then he breaks down and he tells her that the pub's got no beer
It's lonesome away from your kindred and all
By the campfire at night where the wild dingos call
But there's nothin' so lonesome, so dull or so drear
Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
More like:
Think of the underage drinking teenagers!
Or will this force us to re-consider legalizing "weed"? Since with no beer, they'll just move up the chain, anyway.
I told you the world wasnt going to end, i told you it would be MUCH worse.
Here we face a HOT future with NO BEER!
I vote for the government to start giving away suicide packs (but not legalize mariguana).
NO SIG
Finally, an important industry is impacted and we'll be forced to solve the problem
Now there's an inconvenient truth for you...
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Manbeerpig will kill us all!
Sahti, the low-alcohol juniper-based drink in Finland, tastes quite different from gin. I do hate gin as well, though. It's got the aroma of lighter fluid and all the cachet of a sot passed out in an alley in Victorian-era London.
Or maybe Al Gore has drunk all the beer & just using Global Warming to cover his tracks.
Unfortunately the price of corn is skyrocketing already because of bio-diesel
Well, you know what they say - beer today, gone tomorrow :-)
All kidding aside, it is sad; I was much more willing to try (and fail, usually) to attempt new proportions and flavors back before these price hikes. A bad batch would be some wasted time, but not much more. Now, with more expensive gas eating more of my money, and making beer getting more expensive (drinking and driving, of course, being the only 2 things I spend money on), my beer is even more of a luxury item and I am sticking with the tried-and-true recipes of yore, rather than continuing to try new things.
Not to mention the amount of nitrogen (15 times as potent a greenhouse gas than CO2) the gets emitted just from growing the stuff in the first place.
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
To quote Al Gore "THE DEBATE IS OVER". This is not up for discussion anymore. The science has been settled. It has been proven and outlined in "An Inconvenient Truth". You are not allowed to question this. I don't care about "cool winters or years". If the oceans completely freeze over it just proves that global warming is real and more severe than previously thought. Climate change is real. The climate changes. We need the government to buy massive amounts of carbon credits for the poor who can not afford them. Did you not hear Al Gore? Climate change is real. The climate changes and we have already proved it. This matter is now closed.
I know, I know, Troll.