Tons of people have been sending us links to stories about global warming’s effect on beer lately, especially since a New York City Council Member — James Gennaro, out in Flushing, Queens — is kinda trying to wrangle it into a campaign issue.
What it amounts to is people just reporting the weather-induced hops and grain shortages that have been driving up the industry-side costs for over a year now (and which are finally likely to be passed on to consumers in greater amounts). You can check our video on the matter for some background here.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
And here’s another one, this time in the NY Post: http://www.nypost.com/seven/04222008/news/regionalnews/warm__beer_crii_107498.htm