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?
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.
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.
I’m guessing it was a brewery willing to let them do it
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 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?