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New Beer Made From Old Bone 利用鲸鱼化石骨骼酿造啤酒
The United States is currently experiencing a beer making movement. Many beer drinkers these days are no longer happy with mainstream1 beer sold in every store, on every street.
They want something different – something unusual.
To satisfy this taste for strange beer, many small, or micro, brewers are trying anything they can to stand out from the crowd – to be different. Some are even making their beer with ingredients that are old -- really, really old. Like 35 million years old.
A brewery3, a place that makes beer, in the Washington D.C. area has joined with a couple of scientists to make a beer with a most unusual ingredient. The beer is made using bacteria from a 35-million-year-old bone. That bacteria, to be exact, is called yeast4.
Lost Rhino5 Brewing6 Company in Ashburn, Virginia is the company making this new, very unusual beer.
Biology, paleontology and beer?
This beer is the brainchild of Jason Osborne. Jason is a non-professional, or amateur, paleontologist. For fun, he explores old bones, or fossils, in his free time. He was exploring a swamp in the U.S. state of Virginia when he found a 35-million-year-old- fossilized whale bone.
And that’s when his brainchild was born.
He thought, why not combine all the things he loves most - – biology, paleontology and beer? So, he took a sample, an example, of the yeast from this really old whale bone. Yeast is the most important ingredient for making beer. And voila! Here it is! A new beer is born.
"So the idea was conceived, it was basically a brainchild idea of mine to mix molecular7 biology, paleontology, and beer together. It's three things that I love.”
Jason Osborne got help from his microbiologist friend Jasper Akerboom. Mr. Akerboom studies very small life forms and works as a brewing scientist at Lost Rhino. He says at first, he was not sure this was going to work. But, like a good scientist, he decided8 to experiment.
“We took out 20 samples from all kinds of fossilized materials. This was all done in Calvert Marine9 Museum in Maryland. And one of the samples started to ferment10.”
The result was surprising.
“It tastes very good. It tastes very fruity, very earthy. It is very dry.”
So the brewers decided to brew2 a larger amount for buyers.
Taking a calculated risk
Favio Garcia is also an owner of Lost Rhino. He says the brewery stays innovative11 by debuting13, or introducing, a new kind of beer every couple of weeks. He also says you have to take risks to make progress. But he admits that the risks he takes are calculated risks. He weighs the good with the bad before going forward.
“Well, we have 16 beers on tap right now. You have to take a risk to move forward. So it is a calculated risk. But we are happy to take it and create something new and interesting with it.”
The new beer is called Bone Dusters Paleo Ale.
“When people are cleaning the fossils, they dust the sand off the bone. And we thought it would be a cool name to give it.” (Jasper Ackerboom)
The brewers offered it to the public at a special event at Lost Rhino’s drinking room. The debut12 went well. People buying the beer, the customers, said great things about the taste of Bone Dusters Paleo Ale.
"It is fantastic. It is a pretty courageous14 move to strike that yeast and kind of develop some[thing] unique.”
"I am not usually a yeasty, hoppy15 beer drinker. But it is really good.”
"It is not over hopped16; there is not much competing with yeast for flavor. So it really comes through. It’s very drinkable."
Mr. Garcia hopes new ideas, or innovations, like this will help Lost Rhino compete in the growing local beer movement.
The brewers at Lost Rhino do not just talk about the importance of science. They put their money where their mouths are. Lost Rhino will give part of the profits made from the sale of Bone Dusters beer to science programs at schools that are lacking money.
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adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵 | |
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vt.使发酵;n./vt.(使)激动,(使)动乱 | |
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跳上[下]( hop的过去式和过去分词 ); 单足蹦跳; 齐足(或双足)跳行; 摘葎草花 | |
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