Experimenting With the Magic Ingredient in Beer

Only four ingredients are needed to make one of the oldest staples of mankind. Mix water, hops, malt and yeast and you’re well on your way to making beer. But it's beer's smallest ingredient that's making the biggest splash today. The earliest recipes for beer typically didn't list its most important ingredient - yeast. Melissa Hoffmann, quality control head at Lost Rhino Brewing Company in Ashburn, Virginia, says the single-celled fungus is a bit of an unsung...

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