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Can scientists evolve the next great beer?

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(Oct 13, 2019 08:29 PM)C C Wrote: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science...r-flavors/
https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/scie...cohol.html

SUMMARY POINTS: Beer is one of the best scientific creations of all time, right up there with fire and the wheel.

Scientists at the European Union want to naturally speed up the evolution of yeast in order to find the next generation of flavors.

They're combining their techniques with CRISPR, trying to balance genetic research with natural growth.

I don't care how much effort they put into crafting a great beer, I just don't like the taste of beer. To me it all tastes like soapy dishwater. I might like those citrus beers though..
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(Oct 18, 2019 07:36 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: I don't care how much effort they put into crafting a great beer, I just don't like the taste of beer. To me it all tastes like soapy dishwater. I might like those citrus beers though..


I can understand drinking it for the mild effects far more than I could ever grasp why anyone would relish and seek it out for the flavor.

The Brits think American beer is awful in taste as well as weak. Due to having far fewer immigrants from there, I'm not sure they realize that lager was an invention of Germanic countries, not North America. Yanks might have introduced the dreaded refrigerated or cold-served beer and a watered-down version of lager, but they didn't create that type of beer bottom-fermented at cooler temperatures (along with whatever lack of or additional ingredients yields its flavor ranging from infamous to bland). In the UK, lagerbier supposedly heavily references "Pilsner" and "pale lager", which though in the same category is probably more amenable to the continental palate. So the association of American beer to lager could even be obfuscated.
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