Shaffer: N.C. State scientists brew brainy beer

Shaffer: N.C. State scientists brew brainy beer, News & Observer, Aug. 12, 2013. The NC State Brewery serves as a quiet partner trained in microbiology and chemical engineering, a resource that can tell you how to fight contamination, manage yeast and calculate your beer’s International Bitterness Units, or IBU. Blake Layfield, food, bioprocessing & nutrition sciences, featured.