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The Biodiversity of Beer
By Saskia Wolsak, Ethnobotanical Educator, UBC on February 18, 2015
Beer is, perhaps, the oldest fermented beverage known to humankind; and after water and tea, it is the third most popular beverage in the world. These days beer is made from a few key ingredients: water, barley, yeast, and hops. Yet it wasn’t always so. In its thousands of years of history, beer has been […]