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How Global Warming Will Affect Your Beer -- Popular Science
A pilot study examines how drought affects the quality of starch in barley.
There are many things that will change as Earth's climate warms. Doctoral student Peter Gous is worried about the price and quality of beer.
The aspiring plant bioengineer worked with a team of scientists to test how not getting enough water altered the quality of barley grains. In a small pilot study, the scientists found that the starches inside barley grains grown with too little water are different from starches found inside nicely-watered barley grains. The dryness-stressed barley had longer-chain starch grains and more protein than normally grown barley. From there, Gous made an interesting conjecture about the future—one we've never thought of.
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My Comment: The beer will be fine.
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