RAISING HAPPY & HEALTHY YEAST

In fact, there was a time when nobody, including brewers, even knew that yeast existed. At all. In times of yore, before clever folks discovered what would later become modern microbiology, brewers had all sorts of weird and wonderful explanations as to how malty tea became beer.

In fact, there was a time when nobody, including brewers, even knew that yeast existed. In times of yore, before clever folks discovered what would later become modern microbiology, brewers had all sorts of weird and wonderful explanations as to how malty tea became beer. Some believed in the magic stick, which they used to stir the brew (which was of course was coated in invisible yeast particles), while others were convinced that fermentation was due to divine intervention.