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'45-Million-Year-Old' Brewer's Yeast Still Works
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| August 18, 2009
| Brian Thomas, M.S.
Posted on 08/17/2009 11:06:49 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Stumptown Brewery in Guerneville, California, brews its beer according to a unique formula. Although standard ingredients such as malt and hops are used, the yeast that is added is supposedly 45 million years old.[1] The yeast was found in the digestive tract of a bee encased in amber. How could yeast cells survive and still be able to make beer after such a long time?...
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To: GodGunsGuts
Be careful what you ask for.....Bees have had a bad time lately....
To: GodGunsGuts
They must have found it in my pantry.
To: allmendream; ElectricStrawberry; UCANSEE2; xcamel; Caramelgal; goodusername; metmom; ...
To: GodGunsGuts
It's alive!
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:11:54 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
To: GodGunsGuts
I’ve had some beer that tasted like that.
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:14:21 AM PDT
by
LTCJ
(God Save the Constitution - Tar & Feathers, The New Look for Summer '09)
To: GodGunsGuts
God wanted to make sure we would always have beer.
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:17:38 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
To: GodGunsGuts
How could yeast cells survive and still be able to make beer after such a long time? The sentence before answers this question: The yeast was found in the digestive tract of a bee encased in amber.
What causes decomposition? Exposure to air, light, and microbes, etc. Absent those, it remains preserved.
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:21:00 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: GodGunsGuts
Bees made beer 45 million years ago? Who’da thunk it?
To: GodGunsGuts
Holy Jurassic Park, Batman!
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:25:36 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: ozzymandus
found in the digestive tract of a bee
Bees have beer bellies? Who knew.
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:27:20 AM PDT
by
dblshot
To: ozzymandus
Bees made beer 45 million years ago? Who’da thunk it?
I bet it’s flat.
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:27:41 AM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: GodGunsGuts
Of late there have been several announcements of beers/ales made from ancient yeasts, ranging from
Flag Porter (reconstituted from a 19th century shipwreck) to other multi-thousand/million-year-old yeasts. Not guaranteed to taste good, but very interesting. Gotta get me some...
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:29:36 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Your opinion is doubleplusungoodthinkful. You have been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.)
To: GodGunsGuts
do they stamp their cans with a Born On Date of 45 Million B.C.?
To: ctdonath2
I think they reproduced an eight to ten thousand year old Sumerian recipe that was recently discovered. It was supposedly horrible.
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:32:39 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: mnehring
Yup.
Keep it away from free oxygen and moisture, in the dark, without any wild temperature swings, and it could last a long, long, long time.
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:33:02 AM PDT
by
djf
(The "racism" spiel is a crutch, those who unashamedly lean on it, cripples!)
To: GodGunsGuts
tastes like bee vomit.....oh, it’s Strohs....
To: GodGunsGuts
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:37:18 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(I AM JIM THOMPSON)
To: GodGunsGuts
The beer back then was pretty darn good, if I do say so myself.
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posted on
08/17/2009 11:40:32 AM PDT
by
central_va
( http://www.15thvirginia.org/)
To: Buckeye McFrog
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