It seems like a sad fact of life that anything with fewer calories and grams of fat just doesn't taste as good. And nowhere is that more apparent than in light beer.
Luckily for beer drinkers everywhere, the European Union has invested 3.4 million Euros in a yeast research program meant to develop new products for the food industry. According to a report from Gizmag, this could lead to better-tasting light beer.
Beer gets much of its taste from yeast, as do many other foods, like
cheese
and sausage. You can find yeasts everywhere in nature: on humans, fruit
and anywhere else they have access to sugar. About 1,000 species of
yeasts have been identified, but at least 10,000 new species are
expected to be identified in the near future, thanks in part to the EU's
study.
The purpose of the EU's program is to produce healthier
yeasts that also taste better. That means light beers could have as much flavor as their full-caloried brethren.
The only bad news is the timeline. The yeast project will begin next January, and go on for another four years. If that doesn't seem like a long time away, consider that by then my Chicago Cubbies will probably be World Series Champs.
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Tags: Food, Food Unwrapped, Microbiology
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