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Subject- AB 1
Class- SYBSC 1A
ASSIGNMENT 1
The word ‘alcohol’ is derived from the Arabic al – kohl. Pure alcohol is
colourless, clear liquid with a burning taste. It derives its colour from the
wood of the cask in which it is matured, and / or from the caramel which
may be added during its maturation or bottling.
Fermentation is the process in which the yeast acts on sugar and converts
it to ethanol and gives off carbon dioxide. The fermented liquid has 3-14%
alcohol and it can be concentrated up to 95% by a series of distillations.
Fermented Beverages
Fermented beverages can be divided into two groups, wines and beers,
broadly defined. Wines are fermented from various fruit juices containing
fermentable sugars. Beers come from starch-containing products, which
undergo enzymatic splitting by diastase, malting, and mashing, before the
fermentable sugars become available for the yeasts and bacteria. In short,
wines are fermented and beers are brewed and fermented. (Fermented
Beverages Other Than Wine And Beer, n.d.)
It is similar to fermented drinks but the only difference is that the base
ingredient, which is usually malted and crushed cereal, is brewed in hot
water to extract maximum soluble sugar from the malt. It is then cooled,
and allowed to ferment with the addition of yeast.
Compound Beverages