Year in Discovery – November 2016 Harvest Brew Fest

@ Discovery: Harvest BrewFest

November 5th, Discovery Museum hosted an evening featuring CT breweries, beer and cider tasting, and information about the craft and science of brewing beer. Over 100 people came to the Museum’s first annual Harvest BrewFest, which featured seven Connecticut breweries and one local food truck.

Our thanks to all the participating breweries for their contributions to planning and executing a fun event that we hope to grow and enhance next year! Our 2016 partners included Aspetuck Brew Lab, Back East Brewing Company, Black Hog Brewing Co., Charter Oak Brewing Company, Fairfield Craft Ales, Ninety 9 Bottles, Two Roads Brewing Co., Veracious Brewing & Maltose Express, and our food truck for the evening was Decadent Dog food truck.

Global Science News: November 2016

• Challenge to Einstein: Physicists who are challenging Albert Einstein’s theory that the speed of light is constant may be able to test their prediction.
• HIV Vaccine: A large-scale human HIV vaccine trial is underway in South Africa.
• Aging Rewind: California Institute of Technology and University of California, Los Angeles biologists have identified a new method of removing cellular damage, thus helping to slow or reverse the aging process.

Thanks to Wikipedia’s 2016 in Science for the our Global Science headlines.