“Beer: The Best Beverage in the World” — as lectures go, that seems like a pretty good draw. I’ll let you read the description of the talk itself (which does look quite interesting), but I love the speaker’s bio: Charlie Bamforth, Ph.D., D.Sc. is Chair of the Department of Food Science & Technology and Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting & Brewing Sciences at the University of California, Davis.
There are lots of “students” of “malting & brewing sciences” on college campuses today, so I’m guessing Dr. Bamforth is a pretty popular professor on campus.
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I respectfully suggest that we make this a group outing at work. You know, for “team building.” 🙂
For a complete experience, however, we ought to plan an extra 1.5 hours after to experience the fruits of the ancient liquid bioscience first hand.
I’d suggest to leverage the international layout of Y! therefore invite your dear german colleagues as we know a hell of a lot about brewing REAL beer 😉