New beer yeast could make hops irrelevant

[Sailingeric]

https://thetakeout.com/new-beer-yeast-could-make-hops-irrelevant-1823993792

Interesting but for me the fun of beer making is trying out different hops and different amounts.

 

[cubalz]

Talk about something unnecessary. I will stick with traditional brewing ways.

 

[day_trippr]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/...the-hops-genetically-engineered-yeast.647326/

 

[SanPancho]

this will not come to pass as described. the combinations allowed by mixing one yeast with multiple hops would mean that you would need a ridiculous number of yeast strains to match the options we have now.

if you have a US05 yeast with a citrus flavor, what do you do if you really want a more piney flavor? noble? tropical? do they'd have to engineer a new strain for each, and then you'd have to culture them all and mix them in the right proportions?

sounds crazy. not saying they cant come up with some winners, but likely to be limited to a dozen or so "archetype" strains and their typical hop combos- west coast+citrusy, NE+fruity, etc.

but one place that this could really be cool is in sours/saisons/etc.

 

[johnstod]

Does this mean we would need additives to preserve the beer when using this?

 

[SanPancho]

good point. and hop oils do other stuff too like bittering, obviously, head retention, mouthfeel, etc. you'd still need to add hops, or come up with other additives.

 

[johnstod]

good point. and hop oils do other stuff too like bittering, obviously, head retention, mouthfeel, etc. you'd still need to add hops, or come up with other additives.

Yeah completely agree, with the additives that go into things like food I'm fairly sure I would rather pay more for hops than add some of them.

 

[Diver_Alan]

I think I like this. BMC can start can even make cheaper beer. When they quit buying tons of hops the price will go down for the rest of us. Wishful thinking, probably but you never know.