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Louis Pasteur Experiment: The Forcing Process in Brewing Beer

Forcing Tray

— Note from the Pasteur Brewing Editor: The “forcing process” was designed to estimate the relative keeping quality of beers, by investigating the production of healthy yeast and/or bacteria in beer samples, prior to bottling. This is a highly technical process and requires efficient laboratory equipment. — Originally published in “The Microscope in the Brewery and Malt-House” in 1889. CHAPTER …

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Spallanzani and Louis Pasteur – Spontaneous Generation

Lazzaro Spallanzani

Louis Pasteur’s experiments fueled his scientific work and validating his ideas with careful experimention was his passion. The most famous Louis Pasteur experiment was that which he created to disprove the theory of Sponteneous Generation, the theory that living organisms can be “spontaneously generated” from non-living material. Through his experimentation Louis Pasteur concluded that microscopic organisms are present in the …

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