About this Episode
Two straight weeks of nothing however medical doctors on the Craft Beer & Brewing podcast? This week’s episode is one other scientific barnburner with the top of R&D for Wellington’s Storage Challenge. Dr. Peter Bircham has been working in laboratory settings with yeast for a few years, however for the previous few he’s taken on an extra function past the educational, engaged on all the pieces from constructing higher Storage Challenge non-alcoholic beers to creating a testing routine to judge new hop varietals within the Hāpi Analysis breeding program. On this episode, Bircham touches on:
- beer biology
- his systematic R&D course of for creating novel brewing options
- fermenting with much less conventional components like rice
- testing regimens for brand spanking new hop varieties with Hāpi Analysis
- the advantages and limitations of biotransformation
- breaking nitrogen regulation in non-GMO thiol manufacturing
- yeast inbreeding to realize genes of curiosity
- cofermenting potential with uncommon yeasts to unlock thiols
And extra.
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