As brewers battle for custom, yeast is a key part of their toolkit both in product development and efficiency.

Ancient yeast has been coaxed back to life, and the result is a pint-sized portal to the past. Israeli archeologists and ...

Whether you're vegan or just looking for a burst of extra flavor, nutritional yeast is a great meal addition, as long as you ...

Scientists restored a banana-like flavor to beer yeast using the CRISPR tool in the goals to revive lost tastiness.

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? Aa Aa ...

The owner of a Long Island brewery used his scuba diving skills to recover yeast from an 1886 shipwreck and make it part of his line of craft beers.

The team chose a yeast strain that had evolutionarily lost this ability despite possessing many of the genes required for maltose metabolism. After running evolution experiments growing the yeast on ...

One such yeast produces hoppy-tasting beer without hops, a crop that requires a lot of energy and water throughout the growing and drying process.

Scientists have discovered the ancestor of the yeast species necessary for the production of lager beer – in Ireland. Saccharomyces eubayanus is a little-known species of yeast that gave birth ...

Bubbling up: the growing value of yeast to brewers As brewers battle for custom, yeast is a key part of their toolkit both in product development and efficiency.

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? Aa Aa ...