Bones in Beer
The ground up bone-dust acts as a clarifier, which results in a less hazy beer.
Even the lightest of freshly made beers look cloudy—as it has a lot of fine particles from the yeast, grain, & hops. For some beers, brewers employ a variety of biological and mechanical measures to clump together and then sift out the sediment.
Latin American tribes Tapajos, Cubeos, Arapium, and Panoans all mixed the bones of relatives into their beer. Sometimes they would wait until nature had…
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