Beer Made With Wasp Guts!!

You need yeast to make beer. Scientists discovered that wasps have yeast in their bellies, so why no make beer out of it! Brassneck brewery did just that so I went along to try some of their beer and find out why.

I was not sponsored by Brassneck or anyone to do this video, I made it because I find it very interesting!

Links to papers and more info:
Brewer's yeast in the gut of wasps and their survival through insect diapause:
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/33/13398.full

Yeasts hybridizing in the gut of wasps:
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/8/2247.abstract

Genetic basis for the production of insect attractants by yeasts:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s....cience/article/pii/S

Domestication of brewer's yeast (not discussed in our video):
http://www.cell.com/current-bi....ology/fulltext/S0960

http://www.cell.com/cell/fullt....ext/S0092-8674(16)31

SFU's craft beer and brewing essentials program website:
www.sfu.ca/beer

Image credits:
Yeast image
By Masur - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=10

Historical brewery
By Jost Amman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I....mage:The_Brewer_desi Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=86

Hellenistic Mosaics
By Georgeg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....File:Dyonisos_Paphos Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=31

Persian Wine
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=90

Egyptian winemaking
By Ägyptischer Maler um 1500 v. Chr. - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=14

Opening wasps, yeast plate, yeast under microscope
Sebastian Ibarra

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