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Louis Pasteur's Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes, and the Means of Preventing Them

Name: Louis Pasteur's Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes, and the Means of Preventing Them
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ISBN: 9780966208429

Louis Pasteur

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In 1876, Louis Pasteur published his ground-breaking volume, Etudes sur la Biere , soon translated into English as Studies On Fermentation . The book changed the course of brewing during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, representing a huge leap forward in the scientific understanding of the processes involved in beermaking. Brewers around the globe put Pasteur's findings to work in their breweries, and thus plunged the industry headlong into the modern era. In tribute to Pasteur's tremendous contributions to brewing science, BeerBooks.com has reprinted Studies On Fermentation exactly as it appeared when first released in English, complete with all of Pasteur's illustrations. An original 1879 edition was digitally scanned, professionally enhanced and reproduced in a hard cover format. In his preface, Pasteur modestly wrote, "I need not hazard any prediction concerning the advantages likely to accrue to the brewing industry from the adoption of such a process of brewing as my study of the subject has enabled me to devise, and from an application of the novel facts upon which this process is founded. Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am not unaware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruits in the hands of its first inventor." But, of course, the brewing industry recognized almost immediately the impact that Pasteur's work would have on the art and science of beermaking. Frank Faulkner, the British brewing scholar who performed the English translation, wrote, "Seeing the vast importance of Pasteur's work from a practical point of view, after writing a review of it for the Brewers' Journal , I determined to procure, at any rate for the use of my own pupils, a literal translation, illustrated by photo-lithographic copies of the original plates...It was on the completion of this translation that my views and desires expanded. The more I studied the work, the more I! was convinced of its immense value to the brewer as affording him an intelligent knowledge of the processes and materials with which he deals...I determined accordingly to publish the work if I could secure the consent of its distinguished author...The debt which we English brewers owe to M. Pasteur can hardly be over-estimated."

GenresScienceBrewingNonfiction

420 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2005

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Louis Pasteur

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Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of disease. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease. He was best known to the general public for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. He is regarded as one of the three main founders of microbiology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch. Pasteur also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, most notably the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals. His body lies beneath the Institute Pasteur in Paris in a spectacular vault covered in depictions of his accomplishments in Byzantine mosaics.

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