zythology

Beer and cheese, it turns out, are a classic and timeless combination. […] Yet combining the two in creative and inventive ways is a new phenomenon, according to [Nicolas] Soenen. It has come about in the past five years with the advent of a handful of zythology courses launched in Belgium that are designed to create "beer sommeliers".

2013 August 16, Giovanna Dunmall, “Making a strong case for pairing beer and cheese”, in South China Morning Post, Hong Kong: South China Morning Post Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2022

Don't worry if the word "zythological" is unfamiliar, though. It's a made up word. "It just means being crazy about beer," said [Michael] DiFabio, 38, adding that the word is a takeoff from zythos, a blend of hops, and zythology, the study of beer and beer making.

2015 September 15, Adam Littman, “Longtime friends brew up business at Fortside: Prairie High School grads to hold grand opening for Fortside Brewing this week”, in The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.: Columbian Publishing Co., →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2016

From Acarology to Zythology, all of science is developing digital artifacts for use in research; all are branching into the realm of design science research; all are becoming, at least partly, sciences of the artificial.

2021, Veda C. Storey, Richard L. Baskerville, “The Digital Science Field of Design Science Research”, in Leona Chandra Kruse, Stefan Seidel, Geir Inge Hausvik, editors, The Next Wave of Sociotechnical Design: 16th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2021, Kristiansand, Norway, August 4–6, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; LNCS 12807), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 351