On Beer Day, New Belgium Sends Climate Change Warning With Price Spike

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How do you measure the cost of climate change?

While a comprehensive answer to that question may be impossible to find, New Belgium Brewing is trying to address it in one small way—by attempting to calculate what beer will cost after agriculture is significantly disrupted due to climate change. If the prices of barley, wheat and rice continue to rise as expected, the cost of brewing (and buying) beer will become prohibitively expensive.

So to mark International Beer Day today, New

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