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shevy-javatoday at 7:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

So Homer Simpson was right in the end.

Beer is basically fermented sugar (well, glucose converted to ethanol by yeast, for the most part; though its maltose first, yeast, bacteria etc... prefer glucose and maltose is a disaccharide of glucose: Maltose).


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mikrltoday at 8:11 PM

Pretty sure Duff was a heavily filtered macro beer.

Not saying engineered beer is necessarily bad- Sapporo and Asahi never disappoint- but I imagine you would want to stick to unfiltered and unpasteurized to retain some of the more… alive compounds.

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joshuahaglundtoday at 8:27 PM

No beer has nothing to do with Roseburia genus bacteria