Homemade wine requires just fruit, sugar, yeast, and a clean jar, with cleanliness crucial to avoid contamination.

Choosing which type of yeast to use for the fermentation, when making wine, is a crucial decision for winemakers. They can choose to ferment “spontaneously” or buy cultured yeast. The issue has been ...

Just how does grape juice become wine anyway? In today's edition of Ask The Expert we examine the core process behind the ...

The yeast Dekkera bruxellensis plays an important role in the production of wine, as it can have either a positive or a negative impact on the taste. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, among ...

However, one of the most well-known characteristics of yeast is the ability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, baker's yeast, to ferment sugar to 2-carbon components, in particular ethanol, without ...

Wasp intestines provide a good mating environment for the yeast that’s responsible for our wine, beer, and bread. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week, ...

Wine and beer drinkers of the world owe a lot of gratitude to yeast, the unicellular fungi that ferment sugars to ethanol, giving the fruit- and grain-based drinks their sought-after alcoholic kick.

It’s Friday. You’ve just popped open that bottle of chilled red that the salesperson at the natural wine shop convinced you to buy. As you pour, you find there are bits of sediment floating in your ...