Brew History: Wheat Exception

I've talked quite a bit about the Bavarian Purity laws in previous posts. The Law, or the Reinheitsgebot in German, is a majour moment in the history of beer and brewing. It was an attempt at quality control and cultural standardization. How very German. Despite my talk about the law, though, I haven't gone into …

Inconvenient Launch

Some times, a wacky mistake can lead to a truly interesting and brilliant discovery. The world of science knows this well; what might be a terrible error in your experiment may very well show the depths of the universe to your waking eyes. Penicillin was an accident, and look what it did for the medical …