More than the soul of a beer

FAU researchers investigate the antibiotic and antiviral effect of hops

14-Feb-2025 - Hops are not only an essential raw material for brewing beer. Due to its special properties, hops have also been valued as a medicinal plant since ancient times. This is where the scientific work of Luisa Kober and Marco Dürsch comes in. The two researchers from the Chair of Bioprocess ...

Brewing beer can also be energy-efficient - thanks to measurement-based optimization

08-Oct-2024 - Brewing beer is energy-intensive, which results in high costs - for now. This is because "time-variable electricity prices" - i.e. electricity prices that vary depending on the time of day - also enable the beer industry to make an important contribution to the energy transition through more ...

Malted rice emerges as potential game-changer in beer brewing

Rice malt shows potential to play a bigger role in beer

05-Apr-2024 - Rice is showing potential to play a more prominent role in beer brewing, and it helps that Arkansas produces a lot of it. Arkansas grows about half of the rice in the United States, mostly long-grain. Meanwhile, climate change and international conflicts are leading to a shortage of the raw ...

Species conservation through the art of brewing

Research shows suitability of the whiskered brome for beer production

27-Jul-2023 - The whiskered brome (Bromus grossus) is an ancient cereal species that is known to have been cultivated and used as a food resource as early as the Bronze Age. Today, however, it is threatened with extinction. In joint research work, the University of Bayreuth, the Bezirkslehrgut Bayreuth and the ...

Could used beer yeast be the solution to heavy metal contamination in water?

A study shows that yeast, an abundant waste product from breweries, can filter out even trace amounts of lead

17-Jun-2022 - A new analysis by researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) has found that inactive yeast could be effective as an inexpensive, abundant, and simple material for removing lead contamination from drinking water supplies. The study shows that this approach can be efficient and economic, ...

Celebrated barley came from a single plant

20-Jan-2022 - The 200-year-old malting barley variety 'Chevalier' was for a long time world-leading in beer brewing and is thought to have originated from a single plant. In a new study, Swedish researchers from the universities of Linköping and Stockholm have investigated this claim. They have analysed seed ...

Biofuels from the brewery?

Separating beer waste into proteins for foods, and fiber for biofuels

08-Apr-2021 - Home brewing enthusiasts and major manufacturers alike experience the same result of the beer-making process: mounds of leftover grain. Once all the flavor has been extracted from barley and other grains, what's left is a protein- and fiber-rich powder that is typically used in cattle feed or put ...