
A yeast geneticist followed a homebrewing annoyance into a new kind of ingredients company. His real breakthrough was learning that a clever organism still has to answer to the brewer holding the glass.
Berkeley Yeast is an Oakland-based biotechnology company that bioengineers specialized yeast strains for brewers, winemakers, and beverage makers, giving fermented drinks new flavors, greater consistency, and lower resource use without changing a brewery's existing equipment or process.