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Carlsberg’s New Lager Is Made for a Warming World

With the $600 billion global brewing industry threatened by climate change, the Danish company has turned to science for drought-tolerant crops.

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Carlsberg’s New Lager Is Made for a Warming World
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Zoran Gojkovic holds up a glass of golden, foam-topped lager against the light before taking a long, slow draught. “The main flavor is crispness,” says the master brewer for Carlsberg A/S. “It has a slight malty note with a noble hop aroma.”

That description could fit hundreds of everyday lagers. What makes the experimental Carlsberg recipe distinctive is the use of a barley variety engineered to thrive under high heat and water stress—or to put it another way, a cool beer for a warm planet.