Beer may not be as "sophisticated" as a glass of wine, but that doesn't mean wine is automatically better, writes columnist ...

Beer arrived in America in colonial days, with the first brewery established in 1632 by the Dutch in New Amsterdam (later New York). The large number of German immigrants who arrived in the first ...

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?