Beer and Wine News

June 13, 2025

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Tea, Berries, Dark Chocolate and Apples Could Lead to a Longer Life Span, Study Shows

June 3, 2025 — Eating a colorful variety of flavonoid-rich foods like tea, berries, dark chocolate, and apples may significantly lower your risk of chronic diseases and even help you live longer. A major study ...

Certain Traits in Romantic Partners Can Amplify the Impact of a Person's Genetic Risk for Alcohol Problems

May 5, 2025 — Research led by VCU and Rutgers University provides new insights into how the people we love affect our ...

Black Tea and Berries Could Contribute to Healthier Aging

May 5, 2025 — Higher intakes of black tea, berries, citrus fruits and apples could help to promote healthy aging, new research has ...

No More Copy-Pasting: DNA Base Editing for Better Lactobacillus Strains

Apr. 24, 2025 — A team was able to edit the DNA of Lactobacillus strains directly without a template from other organisms. This technique is indistinguishable from natural variation and enabled the researchers to create a strain that doesn't produce ...

Wild Chimps Filmed Sharing 'Boozy' Fruit

Apr. 21, 2025 — Wild chimpanzees have been pictured eating and sharing fruit containing ...

Nonalcoholic Beer Yeasts Evaluated for Fermentation Activity, Flavor Profiles

Apr. 18, 2025 — Food scientists evaluated 11 commercially available yeast strains to identify their strengths based on chemical analysis and sensory panel opinions. Most of the yeasts that were tested are strains ...

Eight or More Drinks Per Week Linked to Signs of Injury in the Brain

Apr. 9, 2025 — Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week have an increased risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosclerosis, signs of brain injury that are associated with memory and thinking problems, according to a new ...

Is Red Wine a Healthier Choice Than White Wine? Uncorking the Cancer Risks

Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers have conducted a study that scours 'the vast and often contradictory literature on the carcinogenicity of red and white wine' to assess whether this assumption holds up, and to compare the cancer risks associated with wine ...

Study Finds Consumer Openness to Smoke-Impacted Wines, Offering New Market Opportunities

Feb. 11, 2025 — Certain groups of consumers appear to be open to drinking smoke-impacted wines, a finding in a new study that could provide market opportunities for winemakers increasingly dealing with the effects ...

Using Sugars from Peas Speeds Up Sour Beer Brewing

Feb. 5, 2025 — Sour beers have become a fixture on microbrewery menus and store shelves. They're enjoyed for their tart, complex flavors, but some can require long and complicated brewing processes. Researchers have now brewed new sours in less time using a ...

Study Shows Potential of Resveratrol to Aid Fertility

Jan. 30, 2025 — A new study has highlighted the potential of resveratrol, a natural compound found in grapes, blueberries, and raspberries, to enhance female fertility. The systematic review found that resveratrol can improve the quantity and quality of egg cells, ...

Dogs Trained to Sniff out Spotted Lanternflies Could Help Reduce Spread

Jan. 2, 2025 — Growers and conservationists have a new weapon to detect invasive spotted lanternflies early and limit their spread: dogs trained to sniff out egg masses that overwinter in vineyards and ...

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Drinking Coffee May Help Prevent Mental Decline in People With Atrial Fibrillation

Dec. 19, 2024 — A study of more than 2,400 people with atrial fibrillation, who had an average age of 73, found that drinking more than five cups of caffeinated ...

New Evidence on the Relationship Between Moderate Wine Consumption and Cardiovascular Health

Dec. 18, 2024 — Light and moderate consumption of wine is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular complications, according to a multicenter study. The study ...

Alcohol Consumption Among Non-Human Animals May Not Be as Rare as Previously Thought, Say Ecologists

Oct. 30, 2024 — Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving 'drunk' after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ethanol has been assumed to be ...

Making 'Scents' of Aromas That Differentiate Beer and Wine

Oct. 29, 2024 — Today, people increasingly seek non-alcoholic versions of beer or wine. Despite boasting different flavors, these two drinks share many aromas, which makes it difficult to produce alcohol-free ...

Outdoor Businesses and Venues Could Benefit from Boosting Biodiversity

Oct. 3, 2024 — Visitors to vineyards enjoyed their tours more when they heard enhanced sounds of diverse birdsong, new research has ...

Fruit Juice Offers a Fresh Take on Kombucha

Sep. 27, 2024 — Kombucha is a fizzy, tangy drink made by fermenting tea. But brewers are now fermenting other plant-based drinks to explore nutritional properties and flavors. Researchers compared the biochemistry ...

Killer Yeasts May Help Remedy a Craft Beer Brewing Bother

Sep. 12, 2024 — Diastatic yeasts can spoil craft beer through hyperattenuation, which boosts the alcohol content and causes bottles to explode. Killer toxins, which are produced by other yeast strains, hint at a ...

Creating Full-Taste, Reduced Alcohol Wine and Spirits: New Trial Opens Realm of Possibilities

Sep. 18, 2024 — A new study has successfully used porous liquids to achieve liquid-liquid separation for the first time, creating exciting potential for advancing ...

Can the MIND Diet Lower the Risk of Memory Problems Later in Life?

Sep. 18, 2024 — People whose diet more closely resembles the MIND diet may have a lower risk of cognitive impairment, according to a new study. Results were similar for Black and white participants. These results do ...

Replacing Ultra-Processed Foods in Diet Reduces Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Sep. 16, 2024 — People who eat more ultra-processed foods (UPF) are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but this risk can be lowered by consuming less processed foods instead, finds a new ...

Getting the Stink out of Smoke-Tainted Wine

Aug. 29, 2024 — Wildfires can damage crops, even if flames come nowhere near the plants. One outcome can be an unpleasant flavor and smell of wine that is made from grapes exposed to smoke. But researchers say that ...

Researchers Pinpoint Brain Cells That Delay First Bite of Food

July 10, 2024 — Do you grab a fork and take a first bite of cake, or say no and walk away? Our motivation to eat is driven by a complex web of cells in the brain that use signals from within the body, as well as ...

Sixty-Million-Year-Old Grape Seeds Reveal How the Death of the Dinosaurs May Have Paved the Way for Grapes to Spread

July 1, 2024 — Scientists discovered the oldest fossil grapes in the Western Hemisphere, which help show how after the death of the dinosaurs, grapes spread across the ...

Wild Yeasts from Patagonia Could Yield New Flavors of Lagers

June 20, 2024 — New strains of yeast for brewing lager beers, created by hybridizing wild strains of yeast from Patagonia with brewer's yeast, can yield novel flavors and aromas, researchers ...

The World's Oldest Wine Discovered

June 18, 2024 — A white wine over 2,000 years old, of Andalusian origin, is the oldest wine ever ...

Gene Could Unlock Big Wheat Yields for a Growing Population

May 22, 2024 — A study has discovered molecular pathways regulated by a gene traditionally used to control wheat-flowering behavior could be altered to achieve greater ...

Temperature, Time and Blueberry Wine

May 15, 2024 — Nutrient-rich blueberries -- a common breakfast smoothie ingredient -- can also create wine. But does the heat and time required to ferment this mighty berry strip out any of those potential ...

Why You Can Taste More Ethanol in a Cold Pint of Beer or Warm Glass of Baijiu

May 1, 2024 — We all have our own preferred drinking temperatures for different alcoholic beverages, with people commonly enjoying beer or white wine chilled, red wine near room temperature, or baijiu (Chinese ...

Genetic Hope in Fight Against Devastating Wheat Disease

Apr. 26, 2024 — Fungal disease Fusarium head blight (FHB) is on the rise due to increasingly humid conditions induced by climate change during the wheat growing season, but a fundamental discovery could help reduce ...

The Spiciness of Mustard May Depend on Soil Microbes

Apr. 22, 2024 — New study finds microbes may influence the taste of mustard ...

E-Tongue Can Detect White Wine Spoilage Before Humans Can

Apr. 17, 2024 — While the electronic tongue bears little physical resemblance to its namesake, the strand-like sensory probes of the 'e-tongue' still outperformed human senses when detecting contaminated ...

Method to Extract Useful Proteins from Beer-Brewing Leftovers

Apr. 11, 2024 — Researchers have created a method that extracts over 80 percent of the available protein in grain leftovers from brewing beer, commonly known as brewers' spent ...

Sustainable Solution for Wastewater Polluted by Dyes Used in Many Industries

Mar. 19, 2024 — Water pollution from dyes used in textile, food, cosmetic and other manufacturing is a major ecological concern with industry and scientists seeking biocompatible and more sustainable alternatives to ...

Muscaris Grapes: Molecular Secret of Lychee Note Revealed

Mar. 11, 2024 — Researchers have succeeded in identifying the odorants responsible for the characteristic lychee note of Muscaris ...

Physical Activity Is Insufficient to Counter Cardiovascular Risk Associated With Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption

Feb. 8, 2024 — Contrary to popular belief, the benefits of physical activity do not outweigh the risks of cardiovascular disease associated with drinking sugar-sweetened beverages, according to a new ...

Genetic Diversity of Wild North American Grapes Mapped

Dec. 19, 2023 — Wild North American grapes are now less of a mystery after researchers decoded and catalogued the genetic diversity of nine species of this valuable wine ...

Researchers Have Taught an Algorithm to 'Taste'

Dec. 1, 2023 — Incorporating human tastes into artificial intelligence makes it easier for wine buyers thirsting for the right wine. Researchers have shown that AI can accurately predict individual wine ...

Alcohol Consumption May Have Positive and Negative Effects on Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Nov. 28, 2023 — A new study found that alcohol consumption may have counteractive effects on CVD risk, depending on the biological presence of certain circulating metabolites -- molecules that are produced during ...

A Stronger Core for Better Plant Breeding

Nov. 21, 2023 — A new software tool with enhanced genome-sequencing powers has been developed, increasing the speed and accuracy at which researchers can improve plants through ...

Why Do Some People Get Headaches from Drinking Red Wine?

Nov. 20, 2023 — Researchers think that a flavanol found naturally in red wines can interfere with the proper metabolism of alcohol and can lead to a ...