UW Madison: 500 years ago, yeast’s epic journey gave rise to lager beer
CONTACT: Chris Todd Hittinger, 608-890-2586, cthittinger@wisc.edu
MADISON - In the 15th century, when Europeans first began moving people and goods across the Atlantic, a microscopic stowaway somehow made its way to the caves and monasteries of Bavaria.
The stowaway, a yeast that may have been transported from a distant shore on a piece of wood or in the stomach of...
