[cloudmountain]

Making beer isn't so easy.
When we lived overseas there was an Aussie woman who made GREAT beer.
She had the touch.

[Billthedrill]

Huge topic. The control of chaperones has implications for anti-mutagenic applications such as cancer research. I’ve said it many times before: beer will save humanity!

[null and void]

The obvious solution (pun intended) is to take the repitching sample out before the final ethanol concentration is reached.

It doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to recognize that a 0.07% solution has got to be less stressful than a Seven-Per-Cent Solution.

(See what I did there?)

[Wonder Warthog]

Seems to me that every couple of beer batches, they need to do a few “yeast generations” without forcing the yeast organisms to generate alcohol. Give’em a chance to “rest up” so to speak.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Happy with Hamm’s here. Looking for Blatz.

[StAnDeliver]

"At the heart of this process is yeast, a single-celled fungus that does all the heavy lifting for brewers. It is so important that beer makers have learned to collect the yeast from the fermented liquid and reuse it in the next round. This trick, called “serial repitching,” saves both time and money."

There is a bakery here that has a thriving 150-year-old yeast colony that they brought from Germany, and they make the singular best donuts and bread you have ever tasted.

[StAnDeliver]

"They say that ethanol itself may be responsible for the change, because in high concentrations it creates a kind of stress for yeast cells that changes the way their molecular machinery works. And they say a better understanding of this process could help make beer better for all of us."

This is also interesting because I remember a study of resveratrol - which was going to make us all live forever about 5 years ago - concluded that the highest commercially-available resveratrol-laden vino was some Finger Lakes red (was it a Pinot?) that the grape strain had consistently undergone the most stress from both climate maxima and pathogens (mold, etc.); and yet always flourished year-to-year.

[neverevergiveup]

This is fairly predictable, but raises interesting questions about how alcohol could be affecting human beings. Anything that substantially alters cellular metabolism can eventually cause epigenetic changes that alter gene expression - and thus alter biology. Alcohol has lots of effects on metabolism - and it would not be surprising in the least that chronic recurrent alcohol exposure could alter epigenetic programming.

[dgbrown]

Better beer? I don’t drink anymore, did something go wrong with beer? With the exception of the real dreggs, I was always quite happy with the beer I was drinking.