Building a chromosome from scratch may sound like science fiction, but scientists have actually done it-and made it work. In ...

Leeuwenhoek discovered that yeast consist of globules floating in a fluid, but he thought they were merely the starchy particles of the grain from which the wort (liquid obtained from the brewing ...

In the quiet town of Meeker, where the scent of pine mingles with the earthy aroma of malt, Chip Brown has replaced the shiny ...

Humans discovered fermentation thousands of years ago, but ancient brews would have tasted much differently from the beers of ...

Alan Edwards' fermentation journey began not in a lab but with a pint. While studying at Imperial College London, he immersed himself in the UK's dynamic pub culture-where each brew told a different ...

The celebrations mark 100 years since Stoke-on-Trent obtained city status from King George V in 1925, as the monarch ...

(No yeasts were completely pure until 1883, said Mathias Hutzler, a microbiologist and colleague of Zarnkow’s who studies brewing yeast history.) By the end of the Middle Ages, a mysterious ...

For the “ancient” beer, Johnson isolated two strains of wild yeast from dates endemic to the Euphrates Valley, believing that it might most closely recreate the variety of yeasts that ancient ...

Yeast is a single-celled fungus important in food production, medicine, and biotechnology. It aids in baking, brewing, and producing medicines like insulin. Rich in nutrients, yeast also offers health ...