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» Beverage Industry News » Business of Beer » New Belgium Brews Bad Tasting Beer to Honor Earth Day & Highlight Climate Change

New Belgium Brews Bad Tasting Beer to Honor Earth Day & Highlight Climate Change

Beverage Industry News» News From The Breweriesposted Apr 21st, 2021 by Tom McCormick

To acknowledge Earth Day, New Belgium Brewing has created a beer called Torched Earth Ale using the kinds of ingredients brewers may be forced to use in the future due to climate change – and it purposefully tastes terrible.

The beer is made using “some of the less-than-ideal ingredients that would be available and affordable to brewers in a climate-ravaged future without aggressive action now to confront the climate crisis,” according to the company such as smoked malts “to mimic the impact wildfires will have on water supply,” and drought-resistant grains such as millet and buckwheat as opposed to barley.

The resulting beer is described as a “dark starchy liquid with smokey aromatics [that] is not likely to win any awards, but does highlight the stakes of climate change for beer lovers everywhere.”

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