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Beer Science 101: Measuring Alcohol Content

Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, helps fuel most of the cars in the United States. Ethanol also fuels your brew. Beer ran on ethanol long before your car did — at least five and perhaps nine solid millennia before. That said,

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It’s the Yeast We Can Brew: The Relationship Between Beer and Yeast

When we drink beer, there’s a fungus among us, a one-celled beast: yeast. Yeast is a live organism with a unique trait. It can thrive in the presence of oxygen, or without it. Given air—specifically, oxygen—yeast multiply. The condition makes

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