With such an important agricultural sector, and such a reputation for scarcity, you would think that California’s management of water resources would be the picture of efficiency. To put it simply: you would be wrong.

We’ve got maybe 11 years to make tangible progress towards addressing climate change… We have to get people to believe that there is a problem and believe that it’s our responsibility to fix it.

Here at NuLeaf we focus on challenges in the modern brewing industry, but in all these centuries, how have these challenges changed over time? We sat down with Professor Gerald Lorentz--an expert on the history of brewing--to help us explore how the obstacles facing the brewing industry have changed, and how they haven’t.