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Water can often play, directly or indirectly, a very important role in the way a beer tastes, [2] [4] as it is the main ingredient. The ion species present in water can affect the metabolic pathways of yeast , and thus the metabolites one can taste.
Attenuation can range between 0.33 and 0.80, but is usually 0.75. [ 2 ] Because fermentation produces ethanol, which has a lower density than water (gravity of 0.787 at 25°C [ 3 ] ), the apparent attenuation overestimates the actual percentage of sugars consumed. [ 4 ]
Sorbitol (/ ˈ s ɔː (r) b ɪ t ɒ l /), less commonly known as glucitol (/ ˈ ɡ l uː s ɪ t ɒ l /), is a sugar alcohol with a sweet taste which the human body metabolizes slowly. It can be obtained by reduction of glucose, which changes the converted aldehyde group (−CHO) to a primary alcohol group (−CH 2 OH).
Glucose uptake is believed to be a major rate-limiting step in glycolysis and replacing S. cerevisiae's HXT1-17 genes with a single chimera HXT gene results in decreased ethanol production or fully respiratory metabolism. [12] Thus, having an efficient glucose uptake system appears to be essential to ability of aerobic fermentation. [20]
Knowing the amount of extract in 100 grams (3.5 oz) of wort before fermentation and the number of grams of extract in 100 grams (3.5 oz) of beer at its completion, the amount alcohol (in grams) formed during the fermentation can be determined. The formula follows, attributed to Balling [1]: 427
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C 6 H 12 O 6 + 2 ADP + 2 P i → 2 C 2 H 5 OH + 2 CO 2 + 2 ATP. Sucrose is a sugar composed of a glucose linked to a fructose. In the first step of alcoholic fermentation, the enzyme invertase cleaves the glycosidic linkage between the glucose and fructose molecules. +
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