"Increasing bouts of extreme heat waves and drought will hurt production of barley, a key beer ingredient, in the future. That means beer prices on average would double, even adjusting for inflation, according to the study in Monday’s journal Nature Plants. Study co-author Steve Davis of the University of California, Irvine, said the beer research was partly done to drive home the not-that-palatable message that climate change is messing with all sorts of aspects of our daily lives."
