The next Omaha Science Café will focus on the science behind brewing and distilling.
Zac Triemert will be the featured speaker on Tuesday, March 2, from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. His talk will focus on the science of brewing and distilling. Triemert is co-president of Lucky Bucket Brewing Company and the Sòlas Distillery.
Both brewing and distilling start out the same way, managing the chemistry of breaking down the starches in grain into fermentable sugars. The next step is microbiology, managing the yeast fermentation of those fermentable sugars.
Triemert will talk about how air, light, time and temperature affect quality of beer. He also will talk about the principals of distilling for making vodka, rum and whiskey.
Before founding Lucky Bucket and Sòlas, Triemert earned a bachelor’s degree in microbiology and chemistry, and a master’s degree in brewing and distilling from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He worked as a fermentation microbiologist for six years and was head brewer at Upstream Brewing Company. Lucky Bucket first launched in 2008 and Sòlas Distillery in 2009.
Science Cafes are held in Omaha the first Tuesday of each month. They are free educational events sponsored by UNMC, BioNebraska and the Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures. The goal is to increase science literacy by getting young adults interested in science by presenting it in a casual setting.
Free pizza will be provided by the Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures for the first 50 people in attendance.
For more information about the Science Cafes, go to http://www.unmc.edu/sciencecafe/index.htm
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