Posts Tagged: Beer and Science
Beer Science: Beer Which Emits Light.
Posted by on Monday, October 27, 2008 in - 2 comments
The BBC has an interesting story today about the lengths to which macro-brewers have gone to figure out how to attract customers: • Green beer. Blue beer. Beer with the frothy 'head' in the middle of the glass, rather than at the top. Beer which emits light..."We've done lots of things which are …
More Yeasty History, More Yeasty Science
Posted by on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 in - leave a comment
It seems like just a couple of weeks ago that I was learning about yeast history through science. Oh. It was just a couple of weeks ago. Now, instead of reaching back just four centuries, science is taking us back through over 400,000 centuries of yeastiness: • Trapped inside a Lebanese weevil …
Two Lager Yeast Strains, Two Homecaves
Posted by on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 in - 11 comments
I am sure I will get this wrong and that Ron will be able to clarify but it appears that two forensic yeast researchers have determined that lager yeast came into existence twice during two separate events: • ...the team discovered that it happened at least twice in two separate locations in …
Did Franklin Know That Much About Beer Goggles?
Posted by on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 in - 1 comment
I doubt not that moderate Drinking has been improv'd for the Diffusion of Knowledge among the ingenious Part of Mankind...drinking does not improve our Faculties, but it enables us to use them. • Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, No. 12, 1722. • Franklin was 16 or 17 when he wrote that under … read more »
Why Don't They Study Slam Dancing And Health Anymore?
Posted by on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 in - 3 comments
Another day, another bunch of odd academic studies from labcoated laboratorians or policy documents from lobbyist trying to tell us all what beer does with you or what you do when you are with your beer: • From France we learn that "when the music gets loud, we tend to drain our mug of brew …
Finally - The French Paradox Has A Beery Counterpart
Posted by on Saturday, March 15, 2008 in - 2 comments
Well, not really - but there is some sort of speculation going on about that very possibility: • “The ground-breaking study shows that the hippocampus, the part of the brain involved in memory, spatial tasks and many other functions, was more than 10 per cent smaller in those whose tipple was …
When Beer And Science Converge
Posted by on Sunday, February 3, 2008 in - 1 comment
Vitamin enriched beer? Why go through the bother of a healthy diet or even taking a multi-vitamin pill when you can buy a beer that is also an invention. Stephen rightly pointed out the silliness of the idea when our Canadian national beer-challenged wine writer pronounced vitamins in beer the …
Best Bitter, St. Peter's, Bungay, Suffolk, UK
Posted by on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 in - 6 comments
This is why it is so great to have the LCBO in my life - they use science. It actually came up in the Globe and Mail today in relation to some recent wine forgeries: • “The quality assurance process undertaken for every single alcoholic beverage sold by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the …
New World Pre-historic Beer
Posted by on Saturday, February 17, 2007 in - 5 comments
The lack of universal beeriness - outside of Europe, the Middle East and Africa - has sometimes got me wondering about whether it has more to do with the lack of universal anthropolgical awareness of New World beer than its historic presence. Interesting, then, to note this reference to the habits …
Beer Science: Pabst Against Pabst
Posted by on Monday, July 24, 2006 in - 15 comments
Ever since my pal portland came up with the phrase beer-tasting water, I have been a little too obsessed with Pabst Blue Ribbon. But then I realized I had a unique opportunity to perform my sort of science experiment: a side-by-side comparison of a PBR from the US against one brewed under license …
