Joseph Lawrence Owades (July 9, 1919 – December 16, 2005)[1] was an American biochemist and brewer of light and industrially produced beer.
[5] The use of this process eliminated carbohydrates from the finished beer, and allowed its caloric content to be reduced by about one-third, while also making it less filling.
[citation needed] Owades received the 1994 Award of Merit from the Master Brewers Association of the Americas, and spoke before many brewing organizations.
[8] He wrote the articles on beer and alcohol metabolism for the Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology.
He was named to the Board of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where in 1999 he endowed the Joseph and Ruth Owades Chair in Chemistry.