A Geologic View Of Beer

jmichaelg writes "Older beer drinkers may remember the Olympia Beer ads that trilled "tis the waters..." The NY Times (reg required) has an article that describes how the geology surrounding a brewery affected the local water chemistry and determined the kind of beer a brewery could produce. Pilsners came from regions with naturally acidic waters while Guiness Stout comes from alkaline waters which percolated through pre-Permian limestone. Read the article and learn how German Brewmeisters hacked their way around the laws which banned chemically augmenting their product."

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Geologists and Beer

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As a geologist, I can only wonder why this took so long to come to light. Geologists and beer go together like... shale and oil.