Brewery creates nasty ‘Torched Earth Ale’ to show how climate change will affect beer taste

Published April 26, 2021 4:45pm ET



The Colorado-based company New Belgium Brewing released a beer that purposely tastes bad to illustrate how climate change may affect the beer industry.

New Belgium Brewing made its flavor, “Torched Earth Ale,” using “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 company said on April 19.

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