• DOI:10.1021/JF020594K
Corpus ID: 18600025

Heavy and light beer: a carbon isotope approach to detect C(4) carbon in beers of different origins, styles, and prices.

@article{Brooks2002HeavyAL,
  title={Heavy and light beer: a carbon isotope approach to detect C(4) carbon in beers of different origins, styles, and prices.},
  author={J. Brooks and N. Buchmann and Sue E. Phillips and Bruce E. Ehleringer and R. Evans and M. Lott and L. Martinelli and W. Pockman and D. Sandquist and J. P. Sparks and L. Sperry and D. Williams and J. Ehleringer},
  journal={Journal of agricultural and food chemistry},
  year={2002},
  volume={50 22},
  pages={
          6413-8
        }
}

J. Brooks, N. Buchmann, +10 authors J. Ehleringer

Published 2002

Chemistry, Medicine

Journal of agricultural and food chemistry

The carbon isotope ratios (delta(13)C) of 160 beers from around the world ranged from -27.3 to -14.9 per thousand, primarily due to variation in the percentage of C(3) or C(4) plant carbon in the final product. Thirty-one percent of beers had a carbon signature of C(3) plants (barley, rice, etc.), whereas the remaining 69% contained some C(3)-C(4) mixture (mean of mixtures, 39 +/- 11% C(4) carbon). Use of C(4) carbon (corn, cane sugar, etc.) was not confined to beers from any particular region… CONTINUE READING

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