Your Spent Hops and Grains, a Valuable Resource For Our Food Chain?
Spent grains and hops contain significant levels of nutrients that are of significant benefit to human health
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Smashing It on the Bench By Going Micro
A flame-side chat with Ben Schulz, leading author of a paper entitled: “Benchtop micro-mashing: high-throughput, robust, experimental beer brewing”.
Primary Souring to Brew Sour Beers
The isolation and characterisation of lactic acid producing yeast isolates now means that you can sour your beer in the primary fermentation stage.
Micro-Mashing: A New Technology that Will Accelerate Beer Recipe Design
Micro-scale mashing to dissect beer biochemistry aided by statistical power Brewing beer is an exercise in experimentation. You (brewers) tinker with recipes more often than not, try new ingredients and combinations to create the best wort. Mashing is an integral part of the design process. In a nutshell, mashing describes the process in which grains …
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No Ifs or Bots. How Alcohol, 48,000 plates, and Stressed Forks Served Up Increased Mutation Rates
A Flame-Side Chat, with Dr Karin Voordeckers Recently, I described an article published by the group of Prof Kevin Verstrepen. Their work sought to investigate the molecular events that lead to enhanced mutation rates in the presence of Alcohol. I am pleased to report on a Flame-Side Chat with Karin Voordeckers, one of the team members who led …
Brewing Beer In the Age of Infertility
It’s time to move past yeast’s fertility problems. Last week, an article by teams at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, the Department of Genetics & Genome Biology at the University of Leicester, and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, was submitted to bioRxiv. This submission (which probably will be peer-reviewed soon) deals with the genetics of yeast. Subscribe now …
Welcome to The Beerologist. Where Science Meets Brewing Delicious Beer
Beer, Science, Brewing- the Science of Beer Brewing. It doesn’t often happen when you get to combine the expertise you have developed over 20 years together with your hobby or interest. Perhaps it takes a global pandemic and a lockdown to gain a new perspective. Or maybe, one needs to accept that to pursue your …
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