CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT MAY BE COMING TO AN END

by Bob Walsh

OK, that is a SLIGHT exaggeration, but only slight.  The California drought and many fires has put a serious dent in the barley supply.  As anybody with any education knows, barley is one of the three essential ingredients to BEER.  

Contrary to what your 6th grade teacher told you, agriculture did not develop to supply grain for bread.  It developed to support the brewing of beer.  The oldest form of alphabetic writing, Cuneiform, was developed in Babylonia to aid and track the production of beer.  (They know this because Cuneiform was written with reeds into clay tablets.  Many fragments of these tablets still exist.  About 75% of them are concerned with making, buying, selling and transporting beer.  The production of beer is older than the baking of bread.

Now, all this means is that your favorite CA production beers or craft beers may be harder to get and more expensive.  That isn't the END of the world, but it may be a precursor.