As a beer nerd, you gotta love yeast, the industrious little critters who give every beer you drink the magical spark of life.  You may know that yeast cells congregate in little clumps converting sugars into alcohol, but do you know WHY they work in teams? Scientists at a small Massachusetts college (some place called […]

It turns out that you’re not the first person who would go out of their way for a beer. According to LiveScience.com, archaeologists suggest that the quest for grains with which to brew drove early man into neighboring territories, and that beer was an important social lubricant, taking the anxiety out of early meetings between […]