Drought threatening to push up the cost of a pint

[Dunfie]

Drought threatening to push up the cost of a pint

Drought? What feckin' drought?

 

[snail59]

It's sad but true Calum. In the Barley growing heartlands there was little or no rain fall in the period when the crop would have been setting there ears. Almost half of all grain stalks have failed to set a grain bearing ear so not just Barley harvests will be down by as much as 50% this year.

 

[craigite]

Raining here. Almost ruined the bairn's sport day.

We could sell some of our rain? Possibly exchange it for some worm. Only about 12deg here. :cry:

Suppose that means our malt prices will rise?

 

[graysalchemy]

Pishing down here but there again this is Manchester :lol: :lol: .
Having said that some of the reservoirs around Manchester are getting low.

 

[Cussword]

My Allotment's waterlogged :x .

 

[dennisking]

We have had very little rain so far this year, so not suprised the barley yeilds are looking poor. Cleaned the car today so it should piss down soon.

 

[screamlead]

Slashing down here in turkey forecast for all week too which is unusual for this time of year.
Might have to ship you boys a few tons of barley by the looks of it too :thumb:

 

[keith1664]

It must be another of those north / south divides. The only green in my lawn is the weeds (so it's looking pretty green then!). But seriously I've never known such a dry spring.

 

[Wez]

The weeds at the allotment are loving the rain :evil:

 

[dennisking]

Just had a piece about it on TV. The goverment are to set up a drought committee so a hosepipe ban will follow, cooling wort`s going to be fun.

 

[paulpj26]

Time to buy a years worth of grain me thinks!

It's been dry here too, apart from this last week.

Just typical though, when most people are struggling for money the one thing that makes life a bit easier (beer) ends up getting even more expensive!.

 

[keith1664]

You can all relax now, it's just started p***ing down.

 

[Dunfie]

It must be another of those north / south divides. The only green in my lawn is the weeds (so it's looking pretty green then!). But seriously I've never known such a dry spring.

You must be right - we have had rain just about every day for weeks. I was up in the Perthshire hills at the weekend and it was very boggy underfoot even on some of the higher hills.

 

[dennisking]

Think its also a west/ east thing, most weather comes from the west so by the time the rainclouds get to here on the east coast they are empty . Shoeburyness, about 15 miles from me is the driest place in the UK.

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Pished it down for a couple of days here in the midlands. Always does on bank holidays

 

[prolix]

My hop plants have been stunted by the drought this year, my garden is riven with 1"+ wide cracks, it is bone dry, today's showers were little more than mist.

Dennis, I remember reading somewhere that there is no restriction on water in the creation of food stuffs when under a hose pipe ban. So wort cooling should not be effected, though the quality of the water here is all ready deteriorating rapidly, it tastes green.

Please some rain any rain would be good.

 

[Bribie]

It must be another of those north / south divides. The only green in my lawn is the weeds (so it's looking pretty green then!). But seriously I've never known such a dry spring.

You must be right - we have had rain just about every day for weeks. I was up in the Perthshire hills at the weekend and it was very boggy underfoot even on some of the higher hills.

The Golden Promise should come good then?