On a snowy Tuesday night in February, 17 sourdough enthusiasts crowded into the kitchen classroom of Calgary’s Cookbook Co. to learn secrets from one of the city’s best-known bakers. Attendees passed ...

Industrial wine making involves adding dried yeast starter cultures to the juice; both the drying and reactivating processes cause stress damage to the yeast cells. As the juice is fermented into wine ...

Produced and enjoyed all around the world, wine is a most popular drink, but making it yourself and reaping the rewards may be all the more satisfying. With a wine-making starter kit, you can craft ...

Using a technique that cuts out unwanted copies of a genome to improve the beneficial properties of a compound, researchers working at the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer, and ...

Sequencing the genomes of hundreds of strains of the wine yeast <em>S. cerevisiae</em> has revealed little genetic diversity and high levels of inbreeding. In many ...

A single grapevine teems with life. There's the fruit, of course, but I'm mainly talking about the tens of millions of microscopic bits of yeast, fungi and bacteria clinging to the ripe grape skins.

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