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...brew crew spends its days monitoring the spigots of a miniature brewery that looms like some Rube Goldberg creation in their Cruess Hall lab. After breaking down 20 commercial beers chemically, the students then create their own original product. Fruits of this term's efforts: a barley wine, a dark German-type beer and a low-carbohydrate model. But both state laws and college custom decree that all potions be discarded after taste tests. "Sentence one, day one: there will be no abuses," says Microbiologist Michael Lewis, a ruddy-faced Welshman who has taught the course since...
...from Cruess Hall, Dinsmoor Webb, a trained chemist, heads an even bubblier enterprise: Davis' 98-year-old program of viticulture (grape production) and oenology (winemaking technology), the foremost facility and oldest department in the country.* A diminutive figure who sports dashing mixes of plaid shirts, tweed jackets and velvet bow ties, Webb reigns over 150 grape-growing acres, 14 faculty members and 155 students, all of whom have completed chemistry, physics and engineering courses before specializing in viticulture or oenology. "I think they should have a little French," says Webb, "but we don't require a foreign language...
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