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This article... It's a article... The oldest beer in the area HAS to be older than 400 years... But I haven't checked, but beer is old, real old, old everywher

This article... It's a article... The oldest beer in the area HAS to be older than 400 years... But I haven't checked, but beer is old, real old, old everywhere. Breweries isolate and propagate yeast all the time. Could be a 400yo yeast or a 4mil yo old yeast strain, it's yeast after all. It's old. Just because it was used 400 years ago doesn't matter. It's probably older. It happens all the time, at large breweries and small breweries. Also Chicha is the wonderful spit based corn beer. The yeast probably won't be missed. Side note.. I left my orange juice on my counter and it fermented with a yeast strain that's probably millions of years old... Did I resurrect it? Nope. If I plate it and grow a clean culture? Meh it still went down great though. I don't mean to diss the work of the brewery but everyone does this. The article is just reaching for an article.

dmix 4y ago
> Also Chicha is the wonderful spit based corn beer. The yeast probably won't be missed. I was curious what you meant by this, from Wikipedia: > In some cultures, instead of germinating the maize to release the starches therein, the maize is ground, moistened by saliva in the chicha maker's mouth, and formed into small balls, which are then flattened and laid out to dry.[10] Naturally occurring ptyalin enzymes in the maker's saliva catalyses the breakdown of starch in the maize into maltose. This process of chewing grains or other starches was used in the production of alcoholic beverages in pre-modern cultures around the world, including, for example, sake in Japan. Chicha prepared in this manner is known as chicha de muko. Also like all classic Inca stories, it contained this bit: > The Incas themselves show the importance of chicha. The lords or royalty probably drank chicha from silver and gold cups known as keros.[34] Also, after defeating an enemy Inca rulers would have heads of the defeated enemy converted into cup to drink chicha from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicha
mikro2nd 4y ago
Have to agree with "just reaching for an article"! No mention of the genetic line (species) this particular yeast might belong to, so almost devoid of information. "This guy isolated some old yeast and cultured it up and he's making beer with it." Reads more like a soft ad to me.

dmix 4y ago

> Also Chicha is the wonderful spit based corn beer. The yeast probably won't be missed. I was curious what you meant by this, from Wikipedia: > In some cultures, instead of germinating the maize to release the starches therein, the maize is ground, moistened by saliva in the chicha maker's mouth, and formed into small balls, which are then flattened and laid out to dry.[10] Naturally occurring ptyalin enzymes in the maker's saliva catalyses the breakdown of starch in the maize into maltose. This process of chewing grains or other starches was used in the production of alcoholic beverages in pre-modern cultures around the world, including, for example, sake in Japan. Chicha prepared in this manner is known as chicha de muko. Also like all classic Inca stories, it contained this bit: > The Incas themselves show the importance of chicha. The lords or royalty probably drank chicha from silver and gold cups known as keros.[34] Also, after defeating an enemy Inca rulers would have heads of the defeated enemy converted into cup to drink chicha from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicha

mikro2nd 4y ago

Have to agree with "just reaching for an article"! No mention of the genetic line (species) this particular yeast might belong to, so almost devoid of information. "This guy isolated some old yeast and cultured it up and he's making beer with it." Reads more like a soft ad to me.