The Yeast Hunters
Meet the couple supplying some of the country’s most lauded brewers with a taste of native Texas terroir.
- story: Laurel Miller
- photo: Dingding Hu
New York City’s Most Coveted Beers Are Made in a Jersey Garage
Dave Martin’s homebrewed farmhouse ales have quickly become the talk of the beer world.
- story: Cory Smith
- photos: Cory Smith
Daily News: Seeking the Perfect Beer Yeast, The Story Behind a Brazen Group of Bootleggers
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - In a Belgian lab, 30,000 strains of yeast are being used for crossbreeding in search of the best type…
- story: Chloe Frechette
Daily News: Sampling New York’s Political Cocktails, An Ode to Drinking in Bars
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - Dogfish Head will offer canned beer for the first time since its founding in 1995. - Bloomberg suggests the Old Fashioned…
- story: Chloe Frechette
Daily News: Beer Made from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast, Spain’s Annual Red Wine Fight
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - Cocktail umbrellas, stirrers and sticks are the medium of choice for the latest large-scale installations by a contemporary…
- story: Chloe Frechette
The Yeast Hunters: Revitalizing Japan’s Ancient Sake Tradition
Over the last half-century sake has gone through a process of standardization that has limited its range of flavors. In the hopes of revitalizing the industry, some are looking to…
- story: Nancy Matsumoto
- illustration: Yoonhwa Jang
“Biologically Aged” Cocktails: Bartenders Take on Fermentation
On different sides of the world, two bartenders are using everything from champagne yeast to koji, a mold used in the production of miso and sake, to ferment cocktail ingredients.…
- story: Carey Jones
- photo: Tim King
Does Yeast Actually Prevent Drunkenness?
A few weeks ago, Sam Adams founder Jim Koch told Esquire that he swallows active dry yeast before a night out, in order to avoid getting drunk. The claim has…
- story: Daniel Yeom
What Makes Beer Smell Like Barnyard?
What is that special something that makes some wines, beers and cheeses smell like—for lack a better term—crap? It's the Brettanomyces, a wild yeast strain that was first identified in…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
