Hoppy Urban Brew (HUB) worker Mathilde Vanmansart pours a bottle of the Line blue beer, made with spirulina algae, into a glass during inside the brewery near Lille, France, January 31, 2022.
A French beer-making business, or brewery, is using a special kind of bacteria to turn their beer blue.
The beer, sold under the name Line, is an alcoholic drink made by the Hoppy Urban Brew brewery. The brewery was looking for a way to make its drinks different from other kinds of beer. So, the beer maker partnered with Etika Spirulina. It is a business in northern France that wants to popularize its spirulina algae as a dietary aid.
Sebastien Verbeke works at Hoppy Urban Brew. He told Reuters that the beer is selling well. "It's getting an enormous amount of interest and curiosity on the part of the public," he said.
The part of the spirulina that gives the beer its blue color is called phycocyanin. It is added to the beer during the beer-making process.
Brewery worker Mathilde Vanmansart described the taste of the beer as hoppy, light, and a little fruity. She added that the only evidence of the added algae was the blue color.
Xavier Delannoy owns the farm that provides the spirulina. He said after several tests, the brewery had found a mixture that pleased buyers.
He said 1,500 bottles of the blue beer were sold between October and December last year. The brewery is now preparing to increase its production to meet demand.
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algae –n. a group of very small, single-celled organisms that include plants and bacteria
enormous –adj. very big in size or amount
curiosity –n. the desire to learn more about something or someone
Spirulina(スピルリナ)とは
ジャパン・アルジェ株式会社 | スピルリナ
スピルリナは水前寺海苔などと同じ
藍藻類の一種で、今から30億年以上も昔に地球上に誕生した、最古の植物の一つです。
主にアフリカや
中南米など、亜熱帯地方の高アルカリの
塩水湖に繁殖しています。
「
スピルリナ」というのは
ラテン語で「らせん」という意味で、くるくるとねじれた形をしていることから名づけられたといいます。
多種類の栄養素が豊富に含まれており、食生活の偏りがちな現代人の栄養補助食品として便利な食品です。
「理想的な栄養食品」ということで
NASAでは宇宙食としての開発も進められています。
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アミノ酸・ビタミン・ミネラル・食物繊維など50種類以上の栄養・健康成分を含み、「スピルリナだけ食べても生きていける」と言われるほど高い栄養価を誇るスーパーフードです。
そのため、国連が食糧難の対策として『スピルリナが優れた未来食になる』と発表したり、NASAでは将来の宇宙食としてスピルリナの採用を研究していたりと、近年注目を集めています。
地球上に生命が現れた時から現在までずっと生き続けている、地球最古の生命体とも言われています。
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The brewery wanted to make its beer blue as a way to stand out and the strategy appears to be working, according to Reuters.
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