Role of Yeast in Production of Alcoholic Beverages

You want to start a home brewery, maybe just for you and your friends, or perhaps bigger things are in your future. Question is, how? What exactly goes into brewing beer? What is the difference between beer, wine, and liquor? Get the answers here at www.botany.Hawaii.edu. Learn the history of beer making and more in this informative post.

Role of Yeast in Production of Alcoholic Beverages

Although there is a distinction between beer, wine and liquor as well as other lesser known alcoholic beverages, they share one thing in common. They are the fermentation products of yeasts, mostly Saccharomyces cerevisiae or in the case of beers, usually S. carlsburgiensis. Yeasts, as you recall, are not mycelial. They are unicellular fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or fission. The reaction by which alcoholic beverages are produced is generally referred to as fermentation and may be summarized as:
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