Water chemistry for brewers: How climate change is interfering with your most important ingredient
Brewers from Colorado to Wyoming to California are watching nervously as [drought] grows more acute. … [Mitch] Steele, who spent a decade as brewmaster at Stone Brewing outside San Diego, says most of Southern California’s water blends Colorado River water with Sierra Nevada mountain snowpack transferred via the California Aqueduct. Extreme drought conditions in California results in suppliers upping the blend percentage from the Colorado River, which picks up a large quantity of minerals as it travels the long distance.