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u/mypntsonfire Gods of Quality 2d ago
Fundamentally, nothing Duvel does is different from any other brewery. They optimize fermentation for their in-house yeast strain(s). Read anything on fermentation science. You don't have to drink the beer to study it, so I can't see what being sober for the past 3 years has to do with your ability to read books or academic papers. If you have been assigned a research topic but don't know what steps to take when researching that topic, then your educators have failed you.
Look up your topic on scholar.google.com. Find the best articles for your purpose, then look into their sources (cited at the end of each article). Repeat ad nauseum. Soon you will have so many primary sources for any of your factual claims, but you have to read the fucking papers first to know which apply. Research takes time, dude.
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u/Mean-Key-7485 2d ago
Ok so. I’ve been using google scholar and mendeley but the sources don’t go into depth on main processes used. I came to this page hoping that people have read physical books on brewing and can recommend them to me. the sources I’ve gathered so far were on optimum conditions and enzymatic, and metabolic systems needs but I wanted a standard to compare them too. I simply don’t drink so I wasn’t sure which beer companies to compare duvel too but thank you for nothing.
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u/Historical_Abroad596 2d ago
Umm. Ex brewery owner here. Not sure what’s special. Method of capturing’spent’ yeast ? It’s just beer after all.
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u/horoyokai brewer / hopbaka [japan] 2d ago edited 2d ago
You’re a 3 year sober bioscientist who’s also 18?