Farmhouse brewers in western Norway have kept a living yeast #kveik in the house for centuries.
New paper: Kveik is an early-branching lineage found nowhere else; reported Asian admixture is likely a statistical artefact.
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Genomic evidence of early-diverging domesticated lineages in Norwegian farmhouse yeast
Abstract. The use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to ferment alcoholic beverages is an ancient tradition, with genetic evidence indicating origins in Neolithic