Selecting Yeast in Beer Brewing and Wine Making Humankind has benefited from fermentation products, but from the yeast's point of view, alcohol and carbon dioxide are just waste products.

Beer is basically fermented grain. First, moisture makes the grain sprout, priming its enzymes to transform starch into sugar. Yeast then converts the sugar into alcohol. Humans would have ...

Take a look at BrewPi, a fermentation controller made with a Raspberry Pi. The project hacks control of a refrigerator and a light bulb into the pervue of a Raspberry Pi board. The RPi itself ...

“Would it be possible,” asked the note in the student suggestion box at Oxford’s oldest women’s college, “to serve beer in hall?” The note put Lady Margaret Hall in a ferment.

As host of KCPT s irreverent Ferment Nation, Doug creates five-minute lessons in flavor, aroma and wine, as well as cocktails, beer and, well, everything alcohol.