Sweet, tangy and packed with probiotics, gira has long been a go-to winter tonic – and is now making a comeback in craft ...

Humans have taken advantage of the metabolism in a tiny fungus called yeast to create beer and wine from grains and fruits. What are the biological mechanisms behind this alcohol production?

A shorter version of this story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. As a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and ...

It’s just after dawn at the Dogfish Head brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where the ambition for the morning is to resurrect an Egyptian ale whose recipe dates back thousands of years.