> zero-alcohol beer
There's not really any shortage of malted drinks you can get as a powder already. Could be interesting if you cut it with kitchen alcohol though, I guess.
German monks create first powdered beer
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Re: German monks create first powdered beer
#22Important to note that it's "zero-alcohol beer" though. I wonder how to put the alcohol in there. Crystals? Is that a thing? Or just ship the ethanol separately in a small bottle like a sauce?
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#23Just reducing the weight of the product by 90% is interesting, it makes it more efficient for delivery by drone.
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#24The first sentence seems to be wrong: > A monastic brewery near Munich says... Klosterbrauerei Neuzelle (15898 Neuzelle) is near Berlin. Klosterbrauerei Andechs, however, is near Munich, but the powder is made in Neuzelle, judging from the links of other commenters.
Actually there are lots of (mostly ex-) monastic breweries in Germany - just searching for "Klosterbrauerei" in Google Maps gives me 7 results in Bavaria alone, and there are others that are apparently under Google's radar, like this one also pretty near to Munich https://klosterbrauerei-reutberg.de . Not to mention the beer brands that are named after monks, but no longer affiliated with them (Augustiner, Paulaner, Franziskaner, ...)
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#25As a former newspaper photographer, I just want to say that I really dislike the use of an AI generated image for this story. Good images would have been a photo of the people or the place where this happened. A photo of a traditional brewing setup. A photo of a beer delivery truck (the story mentions saving on transport costs). There’s just so many real things that could have been used instead. I don’t even mind if…
The worst thing is that they are wrong. There are images. Here is a video from the German public broadcaster RBB: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GqEr5TOIJQ8
Edit: Even better images in the few first seconds of this Der Spiegel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apsBtgdhRfA
Or this Reuters video: https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idOV893521032023RP1
Or this New York Post article: https://nypost.com/2023/03/22/german-brewery-creates-powdere...
Re: German monks create first powdered beer
#26Concentrated beer already exists and is used by Guinness to get a 49:1 saving on shipping volume [0], so the extra reduction by pondering it might not be as valuable as the hype.
Though the wikipedia article says the concentrated extract gets mixed with local pale beer, rather than water. I wonder if it could be tweaked to work with water or dilute alcohol.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Foreign_Extra_Stout
Re: German monks create first powdered beer
#27As a former newspaper photographer, I just want to say that I really dislike the use of an AI generated image for this story. Good images would have been a photo of the people or the place where this happened. A photo of a traditional brewing setup. A photo of a beer delivery truck (the story mentions saving on transport costs). There’s just so many real things that could have been used instead. I don’t even mind if…
Anger, denial, resignation
Re: German monks create first powdered beer
#28As a former newspaper photographer, I just want to say that I really dislike the use of an AI generated image for this story. Good images would have been a photo of the people or the place where this happened. A photo of a traditional brewing setup. A photo of a beer delivery truck (the story mentions saving on transport costs). There’s just so many real things that could have been used instead. I don’t even mind if…
The worst thing is that they are wrong. There are images. Here is a video from the German public broadcaster RBB: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GqEr5TOIJQ8 Edit: Even better images in the few first seconds of this Der Spiegel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apsBtgdhRfA Or this Reuters video: https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idOV893521032023RP1 Or this New York Post article: https://nypost.com/2023/03/22/ger…
Amazing!
Re: German monks create first powdered beer
#29As a former newspaper photographer, I just want to say that I really dislike the use of an AI generated image for this story. Good images would have been a photo of the people or the place where this happened. A photo of a traditional brewing setup. A photo of a beer delivery truck (the story mentions saving on transport costs). There’s just so many real things that could have been used instead. I don’t even mind if…
I had the opposite impression. I thought it helped to visualise the product, brings down the cost of the article and was clearly highlighted so it's not like they were trying to hide it. For a small article like this it would seem so wasteful to send a human out to do the job.
Re: German monks create first powdered beer
#30> zero-alcohol beer There's not really any shortage of malted drinks you can get as a powder already. Could be interesting if you cut it with kitchen alcohol though, I guess.
They mention their next step is to produce an alcoholic variant.