Kombucha tea continues to grow in popularity as a healthy alternative to alcoholic beverages—and chemistry can help commercial and amateur brewers alike get faster and better results with their brews, ...

Drinking alcohol has been part of Australian culture for at least 240 years, and perhaps millennia prior. In recent years, however, there’s been a growing trend towards opting for low- and no-alcohol ...

Winemakers can practice more stylistic control over their product than previously thought, according to new research from Washington State University's Department of Viticulture and Enology (V&E). The ...

Zachary Bean, a master’s student in the department of food science for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, conducts research on reducing alcohol in wines. He will carry on his research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wine has been made by humans for about 7,000 years, and experts agree that until quite recently it may not have tasted very good.

Humans have used fermentation for thousands of years. Chemical residues from pottery at Jiahu, in central China, date a fermented beverage of rice, honey, and fruit to roughly 9,000 years ago, and ...