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BRodda The Feature Creep Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 990	4 percent of U.S. hops crop burns 10/03/2006 2:01 PM
	Looks like US beer drinkers won't have beer to cry into over this. 4% of the US supply of hops, one of the main ingredient in beer, burned this week. I'm surprised that there is not a chemical equivalent to hops that can be synthesized. I guess the active chemicals would make it a problem to mass produce. I was surprised to learn last moth that caffeine isn't chemically produced. Almost all the caffeine in beverages we drink comes from the caffeine stripped out of decaf coffee. __________________ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
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Anonymous Hero Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: The 'Space Coast', USA Posts: 11109 Good Answers: 918	#1 Re: 4 percent of U.S. hops crop burns 10/03/2006 4:31 PM
	Ah, that is okay. It is American beer, slittle is lost. ;-)
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jdst Power-User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Calgary, Alberta Posts: 136	#2 Re: 4 percent of U.S. hops crop burns 10/03/2006 11:19 PM
	Economists tell us - not that I believe anything they say - that a 4% loss or gain in a commodity supply will affect prices. While the odds are pretty good that actual growers (farmers) won't see a penny of it, prices will likely rise as much as 10% to the brewers. Cargill wins again!!! As to caffeine, how do they get the gasoline out of it? (Doesn't 'Naturally Decaffeinated' mean: "We soaked it in gasoline and, naturally, the caffeine came out.")???
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T Man Power-User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Pittsburgh PA Posts: 121	#3 Re: 4 percent of U.S. hops crop burns 10/04/2006 4:39 PM
	WHAT? No Beer Homer is going to be mad. __________________ “There's a sucker born every minute, and I happen to be one of them”
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