FAYETTEVILLE — Christian Schubert and Scott Lafontaine are fighting an old prejudice: that rice doesn’t belong in beer.
Now they’ve got the research to upend that ancient bit of brewing snobbery.
Schubert is a visiting postdoctoral researcher from the Research Institute for Raw Materials and Beverage Analysis, officially known as Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei — or VLB — in Berlin. He’s joined Lafontaine, assistant professor of food chemistry in the food science department of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences…