science of beer

Hi everyone, I’m giving another talk on the science of beer and I’m looking for more stuff to include.  It’s not really about beer, it is more about beer’s contributions to science.  I’ve got the Pasteur stuff, and a bunch of things from Carlsberg Labs, plus the Student T-Test from Guinness.  But I want to add any more stuff I can come up with.

So - can anyone think of any other scientific advancements that came from the study of beer?  Or that were funded by a brewery?

Thanks!

Wasn’t Fleming isolating beer contaminants when he realized Penicillium is antibiotic? I know I read that somewhere, but of course it could be apocryphal.

“How Beer Saved the World”
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/how-beer-saved-the-world/
but alas, no longer available

a (in part) tongue in cheek view of world history.

Try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf3YvXM9j5o&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4XX_PrDWss&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_vyMQC80pQ&feature=related
Parts 1, 2, and 3

Refrigeration was certainly adopted quickly by breweries.  Don’t know if they funded it or anything.

It is believed in some circles that beer is sentient, and created Man as a transportation device.

For some odd reason, I think that is something I read about water, attributed to Kurt Vonnegut (foggy memmory on where I got that).  Then again, beer is 90% or more water.  :wink:

Then someone hitched up a Clydesdale… :o

Aren’t they AB’s bright tanks?  :stuck_out_tongue:

Thats funny
!  Now we are gettin somewhere…lol

That’s awesome, thanks guys.  I found this re: penicillin

What beer brewing technology did the US have that they did not have in Britian?

The 300 series of stainless steels were createded for the brewing industrie. Before 300 series stainless, tanks sprung leaks.

They should have found something to use on that “sub infection” in the Atlantic. :smiley:

I’m guessing it was a brewery willing to let them do it :slight_smile:

It could have just been spare equipment, by the time this happened England was involved in WWII.  That could have had an effect on what he was able to do there, I really don’t know.

Excellent, do you have a reference for this?  My google skills are failing me.

I learned the 300 series in a metallurgy class 20 years ago. Ill check the old textbooks tonight.

i would never have made it through nuclear power school without beer. does that count ::)  as a side note is the old china first restaurant still right near uw campus?

Navy Nuc?

:slight_smile:

It’s still there as far as I know, but I’m afraid to eat there. :wink: