This new beer tastes like climate change, and it’s not good Kerrin Jeromin (New Belgium) There’s nothing quite like a cold beer to finish a long workweek. Unless, of course, that beer reminds you of the threats of climate change, whether suffocating heat waves, explosive wildfires, mega-droughts, devastating floods, or their risks to human health and the environment. That’s actually the goal of Torched Earth Ale, a new beer from New Belgium Brewing, based in Fort Collins, Colo. With each sip, you’ll get a not-so-subtle reminder that your favorite brew may no longer taste the same if we don’t take immediate action to slow climate change and adapt to its effects.
Torched Earth beer from New Belgium tastes like climate change
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Colorado-based brewery releases Torched Earth Ale to illustrate climate change
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– This Earth Day, Fat Tire is releasing “Torched Earth Ale,” a beer made with smoke-tainted water, dandelions, and drought-resistant grains – 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. The resulting dark starchy liquid with smokey aromatics is not likely to win any awards, but does highlight the stakes of climate change for beer lovers everywhere.
In addition, Fat Tire is launching a sustained campaign asking beer drinkers to make a “Last Call for Climate” by demanding their favorite brands adopt 2030 climate plans. As of this year, 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies lack a meaningful climate action plan (one that will help companies achieve or be well on the way to achieving net-zero emissions by 2030, the year scientists say that catastrophic climate change could be irreversible without bold action). To make
To mark Earth Day, Colorado-based brewery New Belgium Brewing created a new beer called Torched Earth Ale with intentionally awful additions to imagine the kind of ingredients that brewers may be forced to use in a dystopian future. Torched Earth Ale is a spinoff of the brewery s flagship Fat Tire (America s first certified carbon-neutral beer) and it is said to play with 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.
Touted as the beer of the climate-ravaged future, Torched Earth Ale features smoke-tainted water, hardy grains like millet and buckwheat, plus shelf-stable extracts and dandelion weeds. With this beer, which isn t supposed to taste great, the brewery is calling for businesses to take action to support a brighter future with better beer in it.