5 Stories Over Beer is a weekly article that presents 5 recent and thought-provoking stories about beer and the brewing industry that you should read. So sit down, grab a beer, and take a few minutes to read 5 thirst-quenching stories. Cheers!

How Craft Brewers Advance Science and Make Better Beer is Featured in 5 Stories Over Beer

1. How Craft Brewers Advance Science and Make Better Beer: Meet Paul Matthews, who is to hops what John James Audubon was to birds. Paul searches for wild hops strains throughout the world. From his discoveries he teases out exciting flavor components for an increasingly demanding beer industry. Read the full story by clicking here.

Seeking Wild Hops to Help Craft Brewers Advance Science

 

2. How Sierra Nevada Developed the ‘Holy Grail of Beer’: Sierra Nevada Brewing Company figured out a way to preserve the more delicate flavor contained in wet-hopped ales. Read the full story by clicking here.

Sierra Nevada uses unique approach to pursue wet-hopped beer

 

3. Lager yeast origin is an intriguing and complex tale: The domesticated hybrid yeast that gives us lager beer is an organism worth many billions of dollars. But where did it come from? Read the full story by clicking here.

Tree galls on Patagonian beech trees were the first places researchers found the yeast Saccharomyces eubayanus in nature.

Photograph courtesy of Diego Libkind, Institute for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Bariloche, Argentina

 

4. Hops Research Yields Clues for Cancer and Diabetes Treatment: Researchers have found that humulones and lupulones isolated from hops may kill leukemia and prostrate-related tumor cells as well as stop the growth and spread of cancer cells and other scientists are testing hops derived medicines to help fight diabetes. Read the full story by clicking here.

Research indicates the bitter elements in hops could form the basis for diabetes and cancer treatments in the future.

 

5. The “mile high pub” or having a draught pint at 35,000 feet: Heineken and KLM have spent years developing a beer keg and dispenser that works at high altitude. Draft beer will soon be available on some KLM flights. Read the full story by clicking here.

Have a draft pint while in flight.

 

 

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