Alcoholic Fermentation

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alcoholic fermentation

[‚al·kə′hȯl·ik ‚fər·mən′tā·shən]

(microbiology)

The process by which certain yeasts decompose sugars in the absence of oxygen to form alcohol and carbon dioxide; method for production of ethanol, wine, and beer.

Alcoholic Fermentation

the conversion of carbohydrates into ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide as a result of the action of microorganisms, mainly yeasts of the genus Saccharomyces. Alcoholic fermentation is widely used in the food-processing industry, including the distilling industry. Research on the chemistry of alcoholic fermentation in the second half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century greatly facilitated the progress of biochemistry in general (seeFERMENTATION).

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ANOVA of the quadratic model for the alcoholic fermentation time.

Optimization of first generation alcoholic fermentation process with Saccharomyces cerevisiae/Otimizacao do processo de fermentacao alcoolica de primeira geracao utilizando Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The chemical equation for alcoholic fermentation in which one molecule of sugar is converted to two molecules each of ethanol (wine alcohol) and carbon dioxide.

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Alcoholic fermentation was completed (reducing sugar less than 2 g/L) after nine to 10 days in all wines.

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4]) and yeast extract in the optimisation of ethanol production through the discontinuous alcoholic fermentation of aqueous jeriva pulp extract, combining the response surface methodology with a super-modified simplex method.

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In fact, his grapes are so good that he has no need to chaptalise (add sugar) and the alcoholic fermentation is allowed to occur spontaneously with natural yeasts.

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During alcoholic fermentation, different yeast species successively dominate, while others remain in the minority or disappear.

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The alcoholic fermentation leads to increased losses, because for each mole of fermented glucose, two molecules of C[O.

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The increase in ethanol content and the decrease in TSS can also be attributed to the alcoholic fermentation carried out by the yeasts [9].

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Our "apprenticeship" means we have sat in on yeast lectures and shadowed brewers for a day ( but admit to experiencing a few zeds from zymamonas (an anaerobic bacteriun causing slimy gelatinous threads in beer) and zymase, a mixture of enzymes extracted from yeast which causes the alcoholic fermentation of sugars.