How Do You Brew Beer
Cal Poly biological sciences professor, Raul Cano, extracted
45million-year-old yeast from amber back in the ’90s. Since then, his
dream of making the yeast a main ingredient in beer and selling it to
the public has become reality. In 1995, Cano was researching the survival of bacteria in amber
containing a preserved bee, and among the bacteria he studied there
happened to be a few yeasts.“At the time we were studying the long-term survival of bacteria … the yeast was just serendipity,” Cano said.While conducting the research, Cano realized some of the yeast from the amber resembled brewer’s yeast.
We noticed the resemblance (of the yeast) so we started looking at
it, and the rest is history,” Cano said. “We were focused on using it
for products that were commercially valuable products that come from
this organism.”When thinking of products with yeast as an ingredient, bread, wine and beer are three that come to mind.“This (yeast) was more suitable for the beer so we pursued that,” Cano said.
Cano attempted to create the beer using the million-year-old yeast
back in 1995, as well as multiple times after that, but it was not until
2006 that his idea truly came to life.
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