alcohol
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Mice Bred Over Several Decades To Get Wasted For Science
It’s tough to say whether studies that show there is an “alcohol gene” hold any weight, but a new study does attempt to drive home that genetics can play a role in somebody’s desire to get totally trashed. It’s all thanks to some drunk mice.
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The Best Booze You’ve Never Heard Of Comes From This Secret Science Lab
Steve Grasse wanted to make the best spirits in the world — so he followed the water. It led him to Tamworth, New Hampshire, a colonial-era township at the foothills of the White Mountains. The town drinks from the Ossippee aquifer, an underground labyrinth of granite-purified mountain water that’s never seen a trace of industrial…
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Scientists ‘Rebrew’ 220-Year Old Beer With Yeast From Aussie Shipwreck
Crafting beer is a science… especially when you’re using yeast from a shipwreck two centuries old. That’s right: an international team of scientists lead by an Australian researcher have “rebrewed” beer using yeast carefully collected from a sunken vessel off the coast of Tasmania.
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This Secret Underground Beer Fridge Is What Dreams Are Made Of
We’ve all dreamed about the perfect beer / beverage fridge at some stage, though a general lack of inventive engineering skills is usually the deciding factor between imagination and reality. That can’t stop you from appreciating the efforts of others, like this secret underground cooler from Peter Götting.