Tag Archives: pasteurization

Raw milk is hot right now, feted by fans for its “cow to cup” direct supply chain. Of course the milk itself never gets hot at all. Unlike “normal” milk, which is heated to 72C to achieve pasteurisation, raw milk remains steadfastly unpasteurised. Naturally, shunning the pathogen-busting work of Louis Pasteur it’s a controversial tipple. Read the full article…

This is an excerpt from the Discovery Channel production How Beer Saved the World. Beer was the basis of modern medicine. It all started in 1850s with scientist Louis Pasteur. He invented pasteurization. Tragically, people always link him to this, milk. But he was actually studying this: beer. Some people think he was looking at milk, but in fact, he …

Historians tell us that Noah’s provisions on the Ark included beer (must have been more than a pair of kegs though). And that prehistoric nomads made barley pop from grain and water before they figured out how to make bread. Scientists say Louis Pasteur developed pasteurisation to stabilise beers 22 years before the process was applied to milk. Read the …

Louis Pasteur developed the modern process of heating food to slow microbial growth with thoughts of keeping beer and wine from spoiling. More than a quarter-century later, in the late 1800s, a German agricultural chemist suggested pasteurizing milk, which also extends its shelf-life. Read the full article…

Our modern understanding of hygiene is based in large part on Louis Pasteur’s invention of pasteurization in the 19th century. Pasteur, who was not a medical doctor, believed that the blood and tissue of a healthy organism should be completely sterile. Read the full article…

Taken from the Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1874. Pasteur, the eminent French chemist, has recently given a method for preparing an unalterable beer; that is, a beer which will not turn sour or spoil upon keeping. It is important to consider two facts as preliminary to this process. In the first place, says Pasteur, all the objectionable …