Saturday, October 25, 2008

Have a Frankenbeer for Long Life

We have a thing about those French, right? They eat lousy diets but are healthier than we are. One idea about why is because they drink a lot of wine that is high in resveratrol. The University of Wisconsin recently published a study on the effects of resveratrol.

Well, we Americans don't want to drink no stinkin' wine...we are beer drinkers! So a group of students at Rice University set about finding a solution: a genetically modified strain of yeast that will produce resveratrol! Unfortunately, these are geeky students, not beer brewers and their first batch reportedly wasn't exactly a fine beer. But they are turning to Saint Arnold Brewing Company to get it right.

Soon we too will be able to eat poorly, drink beer, and still live a long, healthy life thanks to the geeks!

Oh, and that is another bottle of geeky beer: Galileo's Ale that was introduces at last summer's American Astronomical Society meeting.

Reprinted with permission from the Half-Astrophyscist Blog.

4 comments:

drewzepmeister said...

THanks hale,I'm going to have to try some.

OrbsCorbs said...

Dang! Why didn't they invent booze (and tobacco) that make you healthy in my lifetime?

kkdither said...

Heck, I'm all for healthy drinking. Bring it on.

OKIE said...

Sounds like its worth a try. I do drink red wine for my heart...