Drinking beer may become more expensive in the future because of climate change.
U.S. and Chinese researchers have found that climatic changes like heat waves and droughts will cause a fall in barley production, the main ingredient of beer, eventually leading to a rise in beer prices.
The team forecasts that by 2100, world barley production will decrease by as much as seventeen percent and the average beer price will double. This will result in a roughly sixteen percent decrease in beer consumption.
Researchers say Iceland will be the most affected where beer prices could jump by over three hundred percent by the end of the century.
