A find by a student in Ireland plugs a gap in the history of lager
But the trail still leads back to Patagonia
In 2011 one mystery in the history of brewing was replaced by another. The solved mystery was where the specialised yeast needed to make lager came from. The new one was how it had got to lager’s fons et origo, southern Germany—for the yeast in question had been found in Patagonia.
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