Lager yeast ancestors were full of eastern promise
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
There are few drinks as iconic as a 'pint of the black stuff'. It might, therefore, surprise beer connoisseurs to learn that the DNA of the all-important brewing yeast – the building blocks of the perfect Stout – is the same as that which encodes the yeast required to brew a clean, crisp lager.