The earliest known written words in human history document recipes for making bread and beer, both of which are made using yeast, as well the price of bricks – it seems our fancy for food and drink ...

In Michigan's remote Keweenaw Peninsula, Emily Geiger observes a science lab table full of beer-fermenting starter yeast. But this is no ordinary beer yeast—the culture was gathered from the ...

There are numerous types of yeast, and each one has its own unique properties. Here's 10 that are ideal for baking, brewing, ...

I have two cultures going at the moment, one is baking yeast started from a small amount of dried yeast. Second one is beer yeast, recovered from some real ale (our stuff in the UK is usually live).

San Antonio’s Community Cultures Yeast Lab—the only one of its kind in the southern U.S.—collects indigenous strains for craft breweries.

The culture comes from Confluence Ale and is a blend of the Allagash house yeast and Brett yeast. Courtesy of Zach Bodah/Allagash First, let's review.

The yeast Hansen isolated was for a lager, and Carlsberg freely shared its culture with breweries all over Europe. This is, in part, why our beer shelves today are still dominated by lagers.

Yeast is essentially everywhere, from the air we breathe, to the skin of a grape, to the soil that we walk on. “Although our bodies contain about 100 trillion cells, only 10 percent of them are ...

Nutritional yeast is beneficial to vegetarians and vegans who might be lacking in their vitamin B12 intake. It is also very rich in antioxidants, which decreases the risk for heart disease and cancer.