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Final clubs, Quad parties, fake IDs—it is through these techniques that most Harvard students gain their appreciation and understanding of beer. But one group of freshman is taking a more scholarly approach to their alcohol education in the new freshman seminar, “Principles of Industrial Fermentation: Beer, Wine, Bioethanol, and Beyond...
...first year offering the course, lecturer Kevin J. Verstrepen teaches freshmen (and one lucky law student) the process of beer brewing. Verstrepen, who studied at the University of Stellenbosch’s Institute for Wine Biotechnology in South Africa, chose to make beer the focal point of the seminar—even though the course is aimed at underage underclassmen—because it lends itself to studying a variety of scientific fields...
...Beer production shows basic biology, basic chemistry, and basic genetic engineering come together,” Verstrepen says...
Since biogenetics—not intoxication—is the focus of the seminar, Verstrepen employs creative approaches to work with underage drinking restrictions, such as adding flavors to non-alcoholic malt beverages. Alcoholic beer production is still explored, but through field trips, including a recent visit to Boston’s Harpoon Brewery, not tastings...
...night recently police came upon Williams in the park with several huge bottles of beer. "They just told me to go home," he told friends later. His buddies heard him Saturday night, when he got drunk at a bonfire, talk about taking a gun to school and shooting the place up. "I'll show you one day," he said. When it was over, when the police came to take him away, wrapping him in that oversize white jumpsuit, no one heard him say anything about being sorry. And no one heard him ask for anyone, not even...