How bees and wasps became the new craft brewers

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A lab in North Carolina has discovered a new yeast that produces a variety of flavors.

If you enjoy a beer on a summer day, you can thank yeast, the microbes that ferment sugar into alcohol and give beer its character. After innumerable generations of using just two types of yeast, a lab in North Carolina has discovered a new yeast that produces a variety of flavors, and it comes from the weirdest source: bees. Science producer Nsikan Akpan reveals what the buzz is all about.

AIR DATE 7/4/17

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