How will beer and wine taste different in a warmer world?

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the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.

I'm Greg Dalton.

Americans drank 26 gallons of beer and cider per person in 2018.

But extreme weather due to climate change has started to disrupt the business of brewing.

Beer is over 90% water and being headquartered here in Colorado, we are very prone to drought and forest fires.

Katie Wallace is Director of Social and Environmental Impact at New Belgium Brewing, maker of Fat Tire and other craft beers.

A hallmark of the craft beer movement has been the variety of creative ingredients used in the brewing process, ingredients whose availability has become more volatile due to disrupted

weather patterns.

One of the crazy things about climate change for wine is that in the short term, it's

kind of a lot of good news among some not so good news.

Esther Mobley is the wine critic of the San Francisco Chronicle,

where she writes about California wine,

along with beer, spirits, and drinking culture more generally.

Americans drank nearly one billion gallons of wine in 2018,

thanks in part to an expanding global map of wine-growing regions.

You have to see more consistency and more qualities throughout the world, so it's never been a

better time to be a wine drinker.

Dan Petroski is a winemaker at Larkmead Vineyards in the Napa Valley north of San Francisco,

near recent wildfires.

I began our conversation on the Climate One stage by asking him for the big picture impact

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