The Lager Legacy: German Researchers Discover How a 400-Year-Old Mistake Revolutionized Beer
Researchers suggest that lager beer, which now makes up around 90% of beer consumption, originated from a hybrid yeast species in Munich in 1602. This…
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“Hoppy” Health Benefits – Beer Hops Compounds Could Help Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease
Beer is one of the oldest and most popular beverages in the world. Hops, the flowers (or seed cones) of the hop plant Humulus lupulus,…
Used Beer Yeast Could Be Simple Solution to Heavy Metal Contamination in Water
A new study shows that yeast, an abundant waste product from breweries, can filter out even trace amounts of lead. Inactive yeast could be effective…
Cheers! Lager Beer Could Help Men’s Gut Microbes, Reduce Risk of Disease
Numerous studies have shown health benefits from moderate alcohol intake (or maybe not), especially wine. For example, drinking wine with meals is linked with a…
Beer and Spirits Are Worse for the Waistline and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Than Red or White Wine
Drinking beer and spirits is associated with elevated levels of visceral fat – the harmful type of fat that is associated with an increased risk…
More Beer in the Glass With Physics: How Water-Repellent Coatings Can Reduce Foaming
While foam is certainly desirable in the bathtub or on beer, preventing foam — for example in industrial processes — is a much-discussed topic. Often,…
Cheers! Better Beer From CRISPR Gene-Edited Barley
Using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, scientists develop and study gene-edited barley that resists pre-harvest sprouting. After a spell of unexpected rain, before the harvest season, a farmer…
Ancient Poop Shows People in Austria Drank Beer and Ate Blue Cheese 2,700 Years Ago
Human feces don’t usually stick around for long—and certainly not for thousands of years. But exceptions to this general rule are found in a few…
Archaeologists Find Evidence of Beer Drinking 9,000 Years Ago in Southern China
Pottery vessels which had contained beer, found with human remains in platform mound. Alcoholic beverages have long been known to serve an important socio-cultural function…
Scientists Detect Tens of Thousands of Different Molecules in Beer – 80% Not Yet Described in Chemical Databases
Study used modern high resolution analytics to reveal enormous metabolic complexity of beer. The tradition of beer brewing dates back to at least 7000 BCE…
The Physics Behind the Bubble Cascade That Forms in a Glass of Guinness Beer
Does bubble cascade form only in a glass of Guinness beer? Researchers from Osaka University and Kirin HD explain the physics that underpins cascading flow…
Systems Thinking From MIT Unleashes Capacity at Mexico’s Largest Brewery
How a pair of MIT Sloan Executive Education alumni translated teachings from an MIT course to operations improvements at Heineken México. It’s no secret that…
Higher Alcohol Content Craft Beer Popularity Growing As Overall Beer Consumption Down
Americans are consuming more craft beer with higher alcohol content but are drinking less beer by volume, according to a new analysis led by epidemiologists…
Beer Byproduct Mixed With Manure Proves an Excellent Pesticide – Increases Crop Yields
Byproducts from the beer and agricultural industry have been shown to reduce numbers of root-knot nematodes and increase yields of lettuce crops. The use of…
New Method to Separate Beer Waste Into Proteins for Foods, and Fiber for Biofuels
Home brewing enthusiasts and major manufacturers alike experience the same result of the beer-making process: mounds of leftover grain. Once all the flavor has been…
