Synthetic biology has created microbes that produce drugs, flavors, aromas and fuels. Now scientists have used the same tricks, with the help of CRISPR-Cas9, to get yeast to produce the flavor of hops ...

One of the four main components of beer, yeast is often overlooked in favor of malt and hops. Here's what you should know. For more than 20 years John Holl has been covering the beer industry as a ...

An ancient Norwegian yeast is the new kid on the block for brewers. Kveik — which simply means “yeast” in western Norway — is derived from strains of brewing yeast that have been used in Norwegian ...

Brewing beer, it is often said, is both an art and a science. New research, however, has some in the beer industry concerned that the science of brewing could be advancing too far. A team of ...

Hold on to your butts: The latest throwback beer is so old that its key ingredient was around long before humans. The roots of the brew sound like something out of Jurassic Park: A 45-million-year-old ...