links for 2010-06-18

"Scientific American gives us this story on three ancient reconstituted recipes by Dogfish Head."

"Dr. Raul Cano, Director of the Environmental Biotechnology Institute at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo extracted the yeast from an unlucky weevil embedded in amber, reactivated it, and — budding zymurgist that he is — tried it out with a new brew."