Scientists find lager beer's missing link — in Patagonia
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 20:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
German lager yeast appears to have originated on beech trees in southern Argentina. But how did it get to Europe 600 years ago?How did lager beer come to be? After pondering the question for decades, scientists have found that an elusive species of yeast isolated in the forests of Argentina was key to the invention of the crisp-tasting German beer 600 years ago.