New product development muses from around the globe

When reading the Sunday paper last month (yes, I’m a millennial who gets a physical newspaper), my interest was piqued when learning about a new craft beer collaboration. However, this collaboration isn’t between other breweries or a brewery/restaurant partnership. What caught my attention was the union was between a craft brewery and a museum. Amanda Svachula wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that the Field Museum recently teamed up with Off Color Brewing, a Chicago brewery, to develop QingMing, a limited-edition beer made with ancient Chinese brewing techniques. The beer was crafted utilizing brewing techniques that were discovered from the analysis of jars that were found in two Chinese tombs dating back thousands of years, Svachula wrote.