The Saison might be the most intellectually satisfying style in homebrewing. It’s rustic, complex, and almost impossible to completely replicate — because the yeast that…
Following someone else’s recipe is how you learn. Writing your own is how you become a brewer. Recipe design is part science, part intuition, and…
There’s a reason the Hefeweizen has survived unchanged for centuries. It’s one of the most distinctive, most refreshing, and most technically interesting beer styles in…
You can have perfect grain, perfect hops, and healthy yeast — and still make mediocre beer if you don’t control fermentation temperature. It’s the variable…
Here’s something most beer drinkers don’t fully appreciate: you don’t make beer. Yeast makes beer. You make sugar water and keep it warm. The yeast…
A user on Reddit posted today about attending the release of Lost Rhino Bone Duster. Director of field research of Paleo Quest came up with…
Science can make a whole lot of things better. Why shouldn’t beer be one of them? As Popular Mechanics reports, the Yeast 2.0 project has designed and written…
The robo-germ invasion is coming. British researchers are helping to create “designer” genomes that can be inserted into yeast cells to create new strains of…
