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A GENETICALLY engineered yeast makes beer taste of hops – without any actual hops. The yeast could help make brewing beer cheaper and more sustainable.
Hops are the flowers of the hop plant . They give floral and bitter flavours to beer, but their high cost contributes to the price tag of craft beers. What’s more, growing hops uses lots of water and energy, and the amount of flavour they impart varies.
So , and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, set out to create a yeast that produces some of the chemicals…
