“And since all of this happens in the bottle, the yeast sediment often remains, making the wine cloudy or even chunky, depending on how much the winemaker cares about clarity,” Bowen say ...

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?

Yeast comes in different strains and a winemaker ... in grapes is what accounts for the higher alcohol levels in a bottle of wine versus a can of beer. You can find beers with higher ABVs than ...

The labor-intensive process whereby wine undergoes a secondary fermentation inside the bottle, creating bubbles. The process begins with the addition of a liqueur de tirage (a wine solution of sugar ...

Ancestral Method: An inexpensive but risky and difficult-to-control method of producing sparkling wine, and almost certainly the oldest, in which the primary fermentation is stopped before completing, ...