Ingredient Preference Help

This technology hasn'made it to the brewing world. Again, brewers yeast is a grand experiment in microbiological eugenics. Specific traits are desired and the organisms that perform in a desired way are perpetuated while those who don't are discarded. I could only imagine how much a pint of pharmaceutical grade beer is going to cost me.

 

Is KBBS pharmaceutical grade?

 

Technically everything is simply something that happens randomly in nature.
What concerns people about GMO food is when genes from another species are spliced into a food crop.
The most interesting and exciting thing to me happening with genomic science is what they call marker assisted breeding where they identify the gene sequences they want to be present and then screen young plants and cull any that don't have it. Speeds up the breeding process tremendously and allows breeders to select for traits that are harder to identify by just the senses.
I'm not sure what is being done to modify yeast but I would imagine it's mostly that, maybe a bit of splicing between yeast species, possibly the introduction of bacterial genetics. Interesting stuff

 

The list of breweries that meet your specifications would be very, very short. It makes more sense from a cost perspective to use hop extracts and malt syrups. Extracts because it increases IBU utilization and cuts down on the vegetative matter in the wort 'soaking up' beer that a brewery could potentially sell. Malt syrups are also beneficial in making significant quantities of higher gravity beers on smaller systems.

Both of these realities you can learn if you brew your own beer. Actually...have you considered brewing beer at home? It's really the only way, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you will know for sure exactly what is going into your glass.

 

If 'pharmaceutical grade' beer means that I can forgo a flu shot by drinking a beer, well I'm all for that.