An iconic tree that was growing while the Founding Fathers were starting the country is the basis for a new beer in ...

Geneticists have discovered the wild yeast that is believed made possible cold-temperature fermentation -- and the creation of the first lager beers. class="Apple ...

A new fad brewing comes from ancient experiments in Africa around 4,000 B.C. Ancestral beer is a new unpasteurized alcohol from once upon a time when Egyptians transformed malt and yeast into humanity ...

Indiana University scientists are working with Indiana breweries to give Hoosiers a taste of the nation's past. Driving the ...

IU PhD students and a local brewery are creating a Colonial-era beer with wild yeast from 250-year-old trees.

What started out as hops, barley, yeast and water has evolved into a rotation of one wild beer after another in an attempt to satisfy our insatiable craving for variety. Beer in Fargo has come a long ...

Blowing in the Wind: Wild Yeast Produces Beer With Terroir In 2007, Allagash Brewing Co. in Portland, Maine, began using a centuries-old method of fermentation that uses wind-born wild yeast. Master ...

In the beech woodlands of Northwestern Patagonia, researchers identified the long-enigmatic wild yeast species that contributed to the domesticated hybrid yeast used to brew lager beers since the 15th ...

Ice cold beer: In these dog days of summer, few things are better. So, let's raise a glass and toast Saccharomyces eubayanus, newly discovered yeast that helped make cold-fermented lager a runaway ...