Recently, a French brewery used a spirulina as a pigment to launch a blue beer, which brought a unique consumption experience and was welcomed by the market.
The blue color of this beer comes from a type of spirulina that contains phycocyanin, supplied by a food company in northern France.
The business grows the spirulina in a tank for use at a nearby brewery.
Breweries extract phycocyanin from it, which is added during the brewing process to give the beer its blue color.
The food company hopes to develop algae as an alternative food, and use blue beer to promote its own products.
The brewery wanted to produce a different kind of beer, and the two sides hit it off.
Another employee, Mathilde Van Mansart, said after a sip of the freshly brewed blue beer, it was refreshing and had a fruity undertone.
Adding phycocyanin only changed the color of the beer, not the taste.
(produced by Wu Rui)
Responsible editor: [Liu Pai]