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12 February 2025

The consequences of a “Little Ice Age” and a summer brewing prohibition

The offspring wins | This is the third of a four-part article series about the historical evolution of our understanding of the nature and function of yeast in fermentation. It investigates the improbable conditions that made the unlikely hybridization of S. cerevisiae and S. eubayanus in late-Renaissance in Bavaria, as well as its subsequent survival, possible.

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