Discover how to enhance your home-brewed beer with delicious fruits that create bold, fruity notes and add a fresh twist to your brew.

The discovery of a surprising survival mechanism used by beer-brewing yeast could lead to new approaches for fighting cancer. This is the promise of researchers led from the University of Virginia ...

Humans have taken advantage of the metabolism in a tiny fungus called yeast to create beer and wine from grains and fruits. What are the biological mechanisms behind this alcohol production?

Like many potentially hare-brained projects, Dylan McDonnell’s idea to brew beer from yeast that’s nearly 3,000 years old started during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, McDonnell, an avid home ...

The foul foe has been vanquished by a quieter revolution that has swept through craft beer over the past five years: genetically-modified yeast. Alvarado and Temescal are both customers of ...

Belgian scientists report improving the flavor of contemporary beer by identifying and engineering a gene in yeast and some other alcoholic drinks, in a new study out in the journal Applied and ...

Heavy metals from electrical waste recycling could be filtered using beer-brewing yeast. A file photo of a modern plant of waste sorting and recycling, and some beer (inset). Heavy metals from ...

We’ll drink to that! Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech have found a way to use recycled beer yeast to make water cleaner by removing lead, the schools ...

For centuries, lager beer has been made from the same core ingredients: malt, hops and yeast. Curious scientists wondered if they could tweak one of these components and unlock original beer flavors.

“It was by far the most important part of the process,” he said, referring to Mr. Gutman’s yeast. “To me, this would have just been another fun beer I made that isn’t noteworthy if it di ...

When brewer’s yeast left over from beer making is mixed with the right seasonings, it makes a bitter, earthy paste called Marmite that is especially popular in the U.K. Smeared on toast ...