Magical microbe


Magical microbe


A wild yeast sourced from Wisconsin is ushering in a whole new class of beers

Kirby Nelson isn’t a beer geek. He’s a brewery geek. The brewmaster for Wisconsin Brewing Company, Nelson describes himself as an environmental technician whose job is to create and optimize the ideal configurations of water, barley, hops and yeast — and then let mother nature do the rest.

Barley and hops get most of the credit for giving beer its flavor, but yeast plays an essential role too, creating the alcohol and carbonation through the process of fermentation.

And not all yeasts are created equal. Over the course of his career, Nelson has through experimentation found the strains that perform best for each of the various styles of lager and ale brewed at Wisconsin Brewing Company’s Verona facility. But this fall, he’s going to be testing out something totally new — a recently discovered species of wild yeast native to Wisconsin that could help unlock a whole new category of beer...

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Ken Notes: Wild yeast = better beer yet another reason to protect our environment. This is a fun and very interesting read...

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