Diversity of yeasts for Chile research seeks to develop 100% national beer
Study of the Millennium Institute for integrative systems biology and synthetic (iBio), led by researcher Francisco Cubillos, analyzed the diversity of yeasts in the territory of Chile and also develop beers with unique identity National. This research has many interests, one of them is to protect the Chilean genetic heritage, determining what we have in terms of yeast, but also have been working hand in hand with local and regional producers who are interested in achieve a distinctive identity in terms of beer production, said Francisco Cubillos. The investigation came when the team in charge of Cubillos, who work in the line of national genetic patrimony of yeasts, began to isolate strains of different Andean and Patagonian forests of Central and southern Chile, noting that several yeasts were able to ferment in cold, mechanism used in the brewing industry. Thus you could get a beer typeALEoLagerfrom domestic strains.
