When CAMRA, the UK real ale campaign group, decided to ban beers with sexist names and labels from the Great British Beer Festival this summer, the responses were quite predictable. Liberal newspaper The Guardian celebrated ...
Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2019
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Some contaminant yeasts make beer bottles and cans explode. Apart from being dangerous for consumers these 'diastatic' yeasts also cause loss of beer batches due to off-flavours, increased alcohol and over-carbonation in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 20, 2019
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A startup is advancing a unique way to transform algae used to purify municipal wastewater into specialty bio-based chemicals such as biofuels or bioplastics that could help reduce the risk of toxic algae blooms that often ...
Environment
Apr 5, 2019
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Stanford University archaeologists are turning the history of beer on its head.
Archaeology
Sep 12, 2018
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University of Adelaide researchers have uncovered fundamental new information about the malting characteristics of barley grains. They say their finding could pave the way to more stable brewing processes or new malts for ...
Biotechnology
Jul 24, 2018
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Archaeologists at Lund University in Sweden have found carbonised germinated grains showing that malt was produced for beer brewing as early as the Iron Age in the Nordic region. The findings made in Uppåkra in southern ...
Archaeology
Jun 21, 2018
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Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented a new process to turn spent brewery grains into a valuable product that can grow beer yeast.
Biotechnology
Aug 29, 2017
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Brewing researchers at NC State University have developed a new technique that allows them to monitor yeast behavior during fermentation, providing brewers with information they can use to better control the brewing time ...
Biotechnology
Aug 29, 2017
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I think a lot of us know someone among our extended family and friends who's tried their hand at brewing their own beer.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 28, 2017
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Short-chain fatty acids are high-value constituents of cosmetics, active pharmaceutical ingredients, antimicrobial substances, aromas or soap. To date, it has only been possible to extract them from crude oil by chemical ...
Biochemistry
Mar 13, 2017
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