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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
