This special edition of our Lab Session beer was a collaboration with Scottish Bioenergy to produce a Limited Edition Green Beer for St Patrick’s Day 2017. By adding a natural blue colourant extracted from algae known as Phycocyanin we were able to create a vivid green beer. Phycocyanin is a powerful antioxidant and the initial research into its production technique was originally conducted at our home, Newcastle University.
Read more about this here: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2017/03/greenbeer/
