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Lager? I Barely Know 'er
I have to admit, Popular Science caught me with this headline. I don't usually fall for clickbait, but you can't just throw this headline out there and not expect me to fly into a rage.
Obviously, I thought the article would be about how it was a mistake to create lager-style beer. But no, English just has to be ambiguous; it's saying that lager came about by mistake.
Well, it wouldn't be the first or last fortunate mistake in the history of fine fermented beverages.
A study published April 27 in the journal FEMS Yeast Research reveals a possible origin story for lager beer, a light type of beer produced by bottom-fermenting yeast.
By "April 27" they probably mean "of 2023," when this article is from.
The research team used historical records, in tandem with evolution and genomics research, and believe that lager likely originated at the court brewery–or Hofbräuhaus–of Maximilian I, the elector of Bavaria.
That's a lot of work to come up with something they're not really sure of. I just hope they got to do a lot of hands-on research into beer.
The rest of the article gives a few more details about beer origins, but I don't have much else to say about it. Mostly I just had to read it to calm down and confirm that they weren't somehow asserting that it was a mistake to make beer.
Just one more thing: obviously, there was at least one actual mistake in beer history, and that was to pass off mass-produced rice-adjunct processed lager to the American public as "beer." |
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