Only two species of yeast --- ale yeast and lager yeast -- have been used for traditional beer brewing for the last 600 years. A lab in North Carolina may have found a third in the strangest...
========== 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 withbull testicles.All this fuss seems silly when the foundationof alcohol’s flavor is plain, old yeast.Yeast, these little microbes that take sugarsand ferment them into alcohol,
define a beer’s character.Yet for 10,000 years, beers have essentially reliedon two types of bland yeast that basically add no flavors.Now, a lab in North Carolina has discovereda new yeast species that produces an arrayof flavors without added ingredients.Where’d they find it?On bees.AKPAN: The story of bumblebeer begins at
North Carolina State Universityin the lab of Rob...
