On weekends, Jim Withee jumps on his mountain bike and hits the trails in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Instead of a backpack full of PowerBars, he carries sterile containers and forceps. With gloved ...

Step aside, hops. The next focus of craft brewers just might be wild yeast. On the outskirts of San Carlos de Bariloche, a mountain-rimmed tourist town in northwest Patagonia, Diego Libkind stands ...

Without yeast, there is no beer. But, beyond that, yeast has the potential to transform the world of beer, giving it more complex flavor profiles and unique regional differences. So say Rob Green and ...

What does Big Bend taste like? That’s one of the questions Rob Green and his wife and business partner, Mara Young, are answering at San Antonio’s Community Cultures Yeast Lab. There, they test and ...

The latest brewery to start pouring beers in Carlsbad soft-opened March 18th. Wiseguy Brewing Co. is the work of Brett Gent, a longtime homebrewer who moved down from Costa Mesa to take advantage of ...

A team of scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker’s yeast for the first time. The human genes in question ...

ASHEVILLE - Sitting squarely in the Venn diagram of science and craft beer is White Labs, the San Diego-based yeast-production company that will open its Asheville outpost and start producing yeast ...

Yeast don’t have much of a social life; they’re single-celled fungi, after all. But yeast are, indeed, social. Social interaction among humans might center around protein shakes and discussion of ...

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White Labs, the big international yeast-making facility that is building on the edge of downtown Asheville, will include a brewery, a large tasting room and a small kitchen, owner and founder Chris ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The scientific quest to create life in the laboratory is accelerating. Researchers working on a large ...