This Beer Was Brewed Using Yeast Grown in a Beard
Beer basically consists of four things : hops , barleycorn , piddle , and barm . The hops add that flavor that we ’ve come to know as beer , but without yeast , no one would experience its intoxicating result . Of the more than 1600 strains of yeast , only a choice few can ferment shekels into alcoholic beverage . While most yeast , which is a fungus , comes from rotting fruit , bugs , or animate being , a newfangled stress being used by Rogue Brewery in Newport , Oregon , came from a most improbable place — themaster brewer ’s face fungus ....