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Offline PharmBrewer

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Here It Is, the Genetic Family Tree of Beer
« on: September 10, 2016, 02:01:35 pm »
"The genetics research was led by Kevin Verstrepen, a yeast biologist at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology and the University of Leuven, in Belgium. Verstrepen and his colleagues genetically sequenced more than 150 yeasts for the project. Most are brewers yeasts, with some wine, sake, bread, and biofuel-making yeasts thrown in to boot. Verstrepen notes that today's family tree focuses heavily on the yeast behind ales, and that his team is currently working on the genetic linage of the yeasts behind crisper, lighter lagers." - By William Herkewitz, Sep 8, 2016

https://havencrest-microbrewery.blogspot.com/2016/09/genetic-history-of-yeast.html
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Offline charles1968

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Re: Here It Is, the Genetic Family Tree of Beer
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2016, 04:52:25 pm »
It's a shame the identities of the strains used are confidential as there might be some big surprises in the research. For instance, very interesting that 10 commercial lagers, including "Czech lager", are made with S. cerevisiae and not true lager yeast. I wonder if it's Pilsner Urquell?

Saisons in the Beer2 group, which is more closely related to wine yeasts than to most ale yeasts, which isn't a big surprise. But surprising that the Czech lager and some German lagers are in that group too.