Cornell Brewing Extension Lab

08/31/2022

  MUMFORD, N.Y. -- Craft beer lovers and history buffs are invited to follow the journey of hops, one of NY’s original cash crops, from...

06/30/2022

Leftover brewer's yeast as a feed additive may benefit the environment by helping cows belch less methane into the air.

WASHINGTON -- Brewer's yeast used to make beer is typically discarded once it's no longer needed. Sometimes, though, the leftover yeast is mixed into livestock...

01/04/2022

In collaboration with Kaylyn Kirkpatrick of The Brewers Association we're offering an online certification course in craft brewing! Times and registration data here:

The craft brewing industry provides more than 150,000 jobs in the United States alone and has been rapidly expanding for several years now. Whether you’re looking to enter this growing field or are a home brewer, this certificate program will give you the skills you need to create and refine your ...

10/29/2021

It’s got Finger Lakes hops, malt and cherries, plus Cornell maple syrup. Introducing ‘Gorges Libe-ation,’ a red ale developed by grad students and chock full of New York.

08/29/2021

And now we know exactly how koozies work.

The latent heat released when water condenses is an important driver of weather phenomena. And as a simple experiment shows, it also makes it tough to enjoy a frosty one in the summertime.

06/16/2021

A $300,000 investment from New York state has paved the way for a new hops breeding program at Cornell AgriTech, which will grow and develop signature New York hops varieties – selected for high yield, preferred flavors and disease resistance – in support of the state’s $3.4 billion craft brewing industry.

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A $300,000 investment from New York state has paved the way for a new hops breeding program at Cornell AgriTech, which will grow...

05/19/2021

Beginning today, Wednesday, May 19th the capacity limits for restaurants and bars in New York City (and State) have been lifted Having trouble viewing this email? Click here New Guidance On Occupancy,

03/09/2021

A little late for International Women's Day:

Strict gender norms and fears of witchcraft and pushed them out of a centuries-long tradition

02/08/2021

CHAZY, CANTON, and WILLSBORO, N.Y. -- The farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) has funded research investigating the opportunity for regional growers to...

01/28/2021

For the can collectors among us...

Here's how to figure out how long it's been since someone left their empties around, only to be dug up later.

11/18/2020

Name that grain!

Cornell has developed the first variety of spring malting barley designed to succeed in New York’s wet climate and support the state’s $5 billion craft beer industry.

10/23/2020

Extension activities are centered in each state's Land Grant Institution, created when the 1862 Morrill Act granted 30,000 acres of land to establish or support a university that would provide education and outreach in 'agriculture and mechanic arts.' Extension programs have a proud history of providing practical help to citizens for more than 100 years- but we've largely overlooked the ugly fact that land grants were available because indigenous peoples had been forced off their homelands. Cornell has committed to working with local tribes to understand and acknowledge how the institution has benefited from this dispossession; you'll be hearing more about it as we work through what we've learned. Land grant trivia: By the time Cornell was granted land, none was available in the state, so Cornell's landgrant was actually in Wisconsin- and there's a tiny town of Cornell, WI, that marks the location.

Through the “Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project,” the faculty committee formed by the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is investigating Cornell’s legacy as the institution that profited more than ...