45 Million Year Old Beer: "The Fossil Fuels Brewing Company of Northern California will use a strain of yeast grown from spores preserved in amber for forty-five million years. During his research, Dr. Cano, periodically working with Mr. Lambert, isolated a few yeast strains that resembled modern Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In other words, they are similar to the yeast we use every day for brewing and baking, except the "
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