By Jacob Webster-Jones What do pancakes, mushrooms, and biofuel have in common? This may seem like a setup to a bad joke but actually they can all be produced by using a waste product of the brewing industry. You...
BY: SCIENCE MEETS FOOD Here at Science Meets Food, we spend a lot of time thinking about the science of food. Whether working hard in the lab, strolling into a great restaurant, or procrastinating on Reddit, we love to...
BY: LAUREN SIPPLE A Brief History of Sour Beer When beer was first invented (or perhaps more accurately, discovered), it consisted of two ingredients: grain and water. Although unbeknownst to the people of the time, wild yeast such as...
By: Amelia Chen A lot of us are familiar with brewing beer. We know that we need water, grains, hops, and yeast. We might know the specifics of the process, and what to control or modify to get the...
By: Daniel Vollmer This past Fall I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the Young Scientist Symposium in Ghent, Belgium. This trip would serve two purposes: to speak among my peers at a technical conference and...
By: Matt Teegarden So we all have that one hipster friend (or acquaintance, whatever) who talks about their eccentric hobby(ies) with so much unguided pretension that our eyeballs are literally fatigued from rolling so much. Without fail, your exchanges...