Yeasts are really the unsung heros of our civilization. Without yeast there would be no wine ... without the humble yeast.   So, what do yeasts really do? Here’s the simplified version ... . It’s easy to point to alcohol production as the key byproduct of yeast activity, which is exactly what the government does. But you would be missing one of the yeast’s most amazing...

Yeast can't be blamed for the recent surge in burning-hot high alcohol wines. It's time we looked for someone to blame, darn...

Forum: Wine Talk Posted By: Thomas Pellechia Post Time: 09-13-2007 at 12:17 PM

Nice piece in New Scientist today about brewer's yeast: Some time in the distant past Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to give it its full name, developed a chemical trick that would transform human societies. Some anthropologists have argued that the desire for alcohol was what persuaded our ancestors to become farmers and so led to the birth of civilisation. Whether that's true of not, alcohol has...

Ok, let's see now: Estate zin:  got 21 lbs of "good" fruit and 40 lbs of "crud".  The crud is mostly shriveled raisins so I added a bit of water and the chardonnay sludge and I'm fermenting it for grappa.  The good berries got ICV-D254 + EC-1118 (I want a ...

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Creating wine is a complicated art. There are many factors that go into creating a great bottle of wine. One of the major contributors to the process is yeast...

I just read this little blurb: [url=http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2006/12/12/opinion/commentary/doc457eba649e8e0569076997.txt]Genetically Modified Yeast article[/url] Did any of you guys read this little article and the comments that fol...

Gotta have something to balance the geezers' take on it, don't we? :D