Ok folks, it’s shaping up to be a good news day:
A German professor has discovered that the smell of beer is similar to that of roses.
“…flowers and beer have more in common than you’d think,” said Dietrich Wabner, a professor at Munich’s (it figures…Ed.) Technical University…
Wabner developed a procedure to determine the ingredients responsible for the taste and shelf life of beer. To his surprise, he discovered that the fragrance of beer resembles that of roses.
“We found the same essential oils in beer that are contained in roses, jasmine, grapefruit and clary sage used in perfumes,” he told the German Brewer’s Association DBB.
The smell of beer still brings up memories of the horrible, er, *allergic* reaction I had to its consumption after Oktoberfest a few months ago. I suppose I have THAT to look forward to next summer when I’m out pruning the rosebushes? Great. Just great.
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