Rheingold Brewing, where he re-created the original Rheingold lager. Later life and death Owades held many patents in the field of brewing and elsewhere. Owades received the 1994 Award of Merit from the Master Brewers Association of the Americas, and spoke before many brewing organizations. He was among those awarded the Sesquicentennial Medal as a distinguished alumnus by NYU Polytechnic University. 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. Owades died at his home in Sonoma, California on December 16, 2005. He is buried at Home of Peace Cemetery in Colma, California. References External links 'Brewing Legacy: A Portrait of Joseph Owades' by Jaime Jurado (PDF) The Science of Beer - March 1999 Lecture (Requires RealAudio) 1919 births 2005 deaths American brewers 20th-century American Jews Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni 21st-century American Jews Burials at Home of Peace Cemetery (Colma, California)