News - Facts about beer
Jul
25
2017
Beers of the world: Australia
Intrepid English voyager Captain James Cook is credited with first bringing the makings of beer to Australia aboard the Endeavour. Legend has it that when freshwater supplies stored on the ship deteriorated, the crew would turn it into beer, successfully killing any bacteria during the fermentation process.
May
18
2017
Making beer is a win-win process at South African Breweries
Nearly 4 000 years after it was first created, beer is still made using four primary ingredients: water, malted barley, hops and yeast. However, modern beer-brewing processes create a number of by-products, each of which is put to efficient secondary use.
Mar
22
2017
Sweet, cidery beer recreated from 220-year-old yeast microbes
The aptly named Preservation Ale was successfully recreated using yeast microbes extracted from a 220-year-old beer bottle unearthed from a shipwreck off the Australian coast.
