DailyDirt: Getting A Beer
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Everyone talks about beer at some point, even if they don’t drink it or like it. It’s a beverage that might have shaped civilization (by providing a source of reliable safe drinking water along with other benefits), and it’s a drink that is served all over the world. Here are just a few more links on beer in case you needed more chit-chat topics at the bar.
- Belgian scientists have re-created a beer from a 150-year-old shipwreck found off the coast of Finland. The genetic profiles of the yeast and microbes used to brew the beer were analyzed to make a beer that’s a bit sweeter than modern beers. It’s taken a few years to replicate this ancient beer, but it’ll be sold commercially now for over $100 a bottle soon. [url]
- Beer sometimes comes in a plastic bottle, but not commonly. There are a few reasons why plastic isn’t a good way to bottle beer: plastic can give beer undesired flavors, plastic isn’t suitable for pasteurization processes, plastic bottles made for beer might not be easily recycled, etc, etc. [url]
- The FAA has forced a beer delivery drone service to shut down. Lakemaid Beer wanted to deliver its brew to local fishermen around Minnesota, but the FAA says at least 4 regulations were being broken by this beer maker’s commercial drone delivery operation. [url]
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Filed Under: beer, bottles, drone delivery, food, packaging, plastic, yeast
Companies: faa, lakemaid beer
Comments on “DailyDirt: Getting A Beer”
Come on. Beer delivery to a lake isn’t going to kill anyone. And it looks like the FAA ain’t gonna make any clear rules anytime soon
“It’s a beverage that might have shaped civilization by providing a source of reliable safe drinking water”
How so? With an alcohol content typically of about 5%, beer still needs to be pasteurized to kill the germs that might make the water unsafe to drink. (Unless this civilization shaping beer was somehow around 15% or more alcohol, which would indeed provide antiseptic properties.) Of course, just boiling the water (without making beer with it first) would have the same effect if the primary goal was to have something safe to drink.
Adding to the not-enough-alcohol-to-kill-germs problem is that the nutrients in beer will cause it to decompose and rot fairly quickly (beware of those ‘lily pads’ of mold you’ll find floating on top of old beer that’s been left out too long) so drinking old beer may be worse health-wise than drinking old water.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2527074/Did-BEER-create-modern-society-Ancient-man-developed-agriculture-brew-alcohol-not-bake-bread-claims-scientist.html
grain was brewed for beer, not bread?
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I thought that had been well established for a very long time now…
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Never read some of the commentaries on ancient reciepes? For beers or cooking of foods? Beer used to be a stronger concoction then. The alcohol content, the fermentation and everyday ussages of beers, wines and meads were notable because of the “poorness” of the quantity and the flavors of waters. What hunter gather would survive without those flavors? Few. Even worse yet, homesteads with crop growing attracting animals to their lands, would decrease the chance of finding potable waters for refreshment. Therefore the rising of yeasts, vinigars and the need for sanitation.
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