From the wing of a wasp, scientists discover a new beer-making yeast
If you enjoy a beer on a summer day, you can thank yeast, the microbes that ferment sugar into alcohol and give beer its character. After innumerable generations of using just two types of...
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WILLIAM BRANGHAM: On this Independence Day, many Americans will no doubt be enjoying a beer or two. One of the essential ingredients in beer is yeast. But, for 600 years, only two species of yeast, ale yeast and lager yeast, have been used for traditional brewing. But now a lab in North Carolina may have found a third species, and they found it in the strangest of places, on bees and wasps. "NewsHour" science producer Nsikan Akpan and our "ScienceScope" team reveal what the buzz is all about. NSIKAN AKPAN: It feels like beer brewers will do anything to spice up their booze. There's pizza beer, banana split chocolate stout, beer with squid ink, and, of course, Rocky Mountain oyster stout, which is flavored with bull testicles. All th...
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WILLIAM BRANGHAM: On this Independence Day, many Americans will no doubt be enjoying a beer or two. One of the essential ingredients in beer is yeast. But, for 600 years, only two species of yeast, ale yeast and lager yeast, have been used for traditional brewing. But now a lab in North Carolina may have found a third species, and they found it in the strangest of places, on bees and wasps. "NewsHour" science producer Nsikan Akpan and our "ScienceScope" team reveal what the buzz is all about. NSIKAN AKPAN: It feels like beer brewers will do anything to spice up their booze. There's pizza beer, banana split chocolate stout, beer with squid ink, and, of course, Rocky Mountain oyster stout, which is flavored with bull testicles. All th...
