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Traditionally, brewers used large, open fermentation vessels, which were advantageous for several reasons. One is that they offered brewers the ability to harvest yeast for many, many generations, because brewers could scoop the yeast from the surface. These vessels are still quite popular in England. You can still find those kinds of beers today, although most modern beers are made with single strains. They can be difficult to clean, and they are not as sanitary as modern, closed fermentation equipment. Most brewers today use fermentation vessels with cone-shaped bottoms, which have their own advantages and drawbacks. These vessels offer clean-in-place technology and excellent temperature control, but extremely tall fermentors can put additional stress on yeast. The increased partial pressures of gasses in solution can affect yeast performance and the flavor of the beer.
Homebrewers have the advantage of time and economic freedom, so they can utilize everything from open fermentors to smaller versions of commercial cylindroconical fermentors. Temperature Control Temperature control is essential for consistent, high-quality beer. This is far more important than the difference between stainless conical fermentors and plastic buckets. One of the most critical things to take away from this book is the importance of fermentation temperature on the quality of the beer. When a problem arises, and it is not a contamination problem, the first place to look is the temperature of the beer throughout all phases of fermentation, from pitching through final conditioning. High or low temperatures affect the production of many off-flavor precursors at the beginning of fermentation. Large, uncontrolled temperature swings produce poor results, especially when the batch sizes are small. The smaller the batch size, the more rapidly it is affected by changes in ambient temperature.
Fermentation Monitoring Monitoring equipment and methods can range widely in cost and complexity. A brewer can achieve a lot with something as simple as the power of observation, a thermometer, and a few basic manual tests. Larger commercial breweries often invest in sophisticated computer testing systems. The most important measurements during fermentation in order of precedence are temperature, specific gravity, pH, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. The important thing to note is the need for regular measurements and monitoring the progress of fermentation. It is through your rigorous attention to fermentation that you will spot problems early on, perhaps saving considerable cost in lost product.
Taxonomists have classified yeast as part of the fungus kingdom. Other kingdoms include bacteria, animals, and plants. Most of the organisms in the fungus kingdom, such as molds and mushrooms, are multicellular, but yeast is a single-cell organism. This means that yeast do not have forms of protection that multicellular organisms have, such as a skin. Yet these little single-cell organisms are surprisingly resilient, making up in numbers and rapid replication what they lack in protection. A single yeast cell is about 5 to 10 microns in size and round to ovoid in shape. A yeast cell is ten times larger than bacteria but still too small to be seen by the naked eye. In fact, it takes more than ten yeast cells to equal the diameter of one human hair.
A small, visible yeast colony on a Petri dish contains at least 1 million cells. There are more than species of yeast, and within each species are thousands of different yeast strains. We find yeast all over the world—living in soil, on insects and crustaceans, on animals, and on plants. In the early days, taxonomists classified yeast as part of the plant kingdom. Look at any piece of ripe fruit and you can be certain that yeast is all over it. The yeast settle on just about every surface, anxious to find more sugars to ferment so they can multiply. Look at that sunshine streaming in through the brewery window. Do you see the dust particles? There is a good chance they are carrying native yeast, and bacteria, too, just waiting for an opportunity to land in your beer.
Most brewers do not want native yeast in their beer, and they call these wild yeast. Brewers, winemakers, and distillers use a few very specific species of yeast for their products. cerevisiae ale yeast and S. pastorianus lager yeast. Taxonomists go back and forth about whether S. pastorianus is a member of the S. cerevisiae species or is its own species. Currently they consider them as separate, and this agrees with the brewing world. Lager yeast has gone by other names in the past, S. uvarum and S. Winemakers most commonly use either S. cerevisiae or S. bayanus, and it is interesting to note that lager yeast appears to have evolved through the rare hybridization of those two species Casey, Genetics of S.
cerevisiae A gene encodes a protein, and yeast has about 6, genes. We know this because yeast was the first eukaryotic organism to have its entire genome sequenced, by an international community of scientists in Genes are part of chromosomes, and yeast has sixteen different chromosomes. In comparison, bacteria have one chromosome, and human cells have twenty-three. Normally, yeast and human cells are diploid, which means that they contain two copies of each chromosome; haploid cells contain only a single copy of each chromosome. Yeast in the wild is usually diploid and contains thirty-two chromosomes, two copies of each of the sixteen chromosomes.
Yeast form spores in the wild, which is a key part of their mating cycle. However, we as brewers want consistency from yeast, not diversity and rapid genetic change. Losing the ability to mate seriously curtailed evolutionary change, and today brewers can count on yeast to be more consistent batch to batch. Although copies of a chromosome are not necessarily isogenic identical , the beauty of polyploidy is that a mutation in one gene does not incapacitate the cell; the yeast has multiple copies of the gene to make the needed protein product. Yeast genetics determine whether a cell is an ale yeast or lager yeast. Genetics also determine everything else about a cell. Even though we know the DNA deoxyribonucleic acid sequence for S. cerevisiae, we do not yet know what each gene does. The phenotype is every characteristic of the cell: what sugars it eats, what it produces, what nutritional and oxygen demands it has.
Scientists are looking at ways to see which genes are active at any given time, but so far, this has resulted in little help for brewers. Brewers today still rely on the same techniques as brewers from the past: looking at what yeast does during fermentation phenotype in order to determine the identity, condition, performance, and purity of the yeast. Yeast Cell Structure Cell Wall. The cell wall is a thick, mostly carbohydrate barrier that surrounds the cell. A yeast cell wall is like a wicker basket protecting its contents. Approximately 10 percent of the protein is stuck into the cell wall. There are three cross-linked layers. The inner layer is a chitin layer, composed mostly of glucans; the outer layer is mostly mannoproteins; and the intermediate layer is a mixture of the two Smart, When a yeast cell clones itself and makes a new daughter cell, it creates a permanent scar in the cell wall, called a bud scar. A bud scar is composed hTPbc Figure 2.
mostly of chitin, the same material found in the exoskeletons of insects Boulton and Quain, Bud scars are sometimes visible under light microscopy. Generally, the average ale yeast cell will not bud more than thirty times over its lifetime in multiple fermentation cycles , and lager yeast will bud only twenty times before they are unable to bud further. Plasma Membrane. The plasma membrane, or cell membrane, is a lipid bilayer between the cell wall and the inside of the cell. This semi-permeable membrane determines what gets in and out of the cell, also providing additional environmental protection. Lipids, sterols, and proteins make up this membrane and give it fluidity, flexibility, and the ability to bud to form a new daughter cell. Yeast require molecular oxygen to put double bonds in fatty acids and to control the level of fatty acid saturation.
The saturation level determines the ease and extent of hydrogen bonding that can occur between fatty acids and determines their melting point. In lipids, the level of saturation controls the extent to which hydrogen bonding can occur between the hydrophobic tails of lipids. Lipid bilayers are by their nature fluid, and that fluidity is determined by the extent to which the lipids bind one another. Without proper aeration yeast are unable to control membrane fluidity through to the end of fermentation, leading to stuck fermentations and off-flavors. A lot happens in the cytoplasm, which is everything inside the plasma membrane except the nucleus.
The intracellular fluid, known as the cytosol, is a complex mixture of substances dissolved in water. Most importantly, the cytosol contains the enzymes involved in anaerobic fermentation. These enzymes enable the cell to convert glucose into energy as soon as it enters the cell. Specialized organelles, such as vacuoles, contain proteases. Proteases are enzymes that break down long proteins into short fragments and in some cases break off necessary amino acids. Yeast also store glycogen, an energy storage carbohydrate, in the cytoplasm. With the aid of a light microscope and iodine staining, a brewer can see the stored glycogen Quain and Tubb, Aerobic respiration takes place in the mitochondrion. Mitochondria have a double membrane, which is where the conversion of pyruvate a metabolic compound to carbon dioxide and water aerobic respiration occurs.
Illustration courtesy of Mariana Ruiz. hTPbc respiration occurs during fermentation, mitochondria are still present and important to the health of the cell. Mitochondria contain a small amount of DNA with codes for a few mitochondria proteins. The cell makes some sterols here, and this is where the formation and utilization of acetylCoA, which is an intermediate compound for many metabolic pathways, occurs. Petite mutants, cells with impaired mitochondria, often create off-flavors such as phenol and diacetyl see pp. The vacuole is a membrane-bound structure that stores nutrients. This is also where the cell breaks down proteins. However, abnormally large vacuoles are a sign of stress. The nucleus stores the cell DNA. A lipid membrane, similar to the plasma membrane, envelops the cell nucleus. The cell uses mRNA to transfer the information out into the cytoplasm to use in protein synthesis.
Endoplasmic Reticulum. The endoplasmic reticulum is a network of membranes, and is usually where the cell manufactures proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates. Metabolism Individual yeast cells do not grow significantly larger during their lifetime. However, they do get a little larger as they age. Generally, when we talk about yeast growth, we are referring to the process of making new yeast cells. When we say the yeast is growing, we mean the yeast population is increasing in number. Yeast can derive the energy and nutrients for growth through several different pathways, though some are easier and more beneficial to the yeast than others.
Upon inoculation into wort, the cells first utilize their glycogen reserves and any available oxygen to revitalize their cell membranes for optimal permeability and transfer of nutrients and sugars. The cells rapidly absorb oxygen and then begin to pick up sugar and nutrients from the wort. Some of these compounds easily diffuse across the cell membrane and some require yeast transport mechanisms. Because yeast utilize some sugars more easily than others, they take up sugar in a specific order,!! with simpler sugars first: glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, and then maltotriose. Most of the sugar in a typical all-malt wort is maltose, with lesser amounts of glucose and maltotriose. Yeast take glucose into the cell through facilitated diffusion, without expending any metabolic energy.
The uptake of oxygen happens rapidly, with the yeast usually depleting wort oxygen levels within 30 minutes of inoculation. In nature, yeast sitting on top of a pile of rotting fruit have lots of oxygen they can use to consume sugar. This is aerobic growth, which is the most effective way for an organism to get the greatest amount of energy out of a sugar molecule. However, there are times and environments where oxygen is! Consuming sugar in an oxygen-free environment leads to anaerobic growth. Alcohol One of the most important things yeast do for fermented beverages is produce alcohol. Whether the industry likes to admit it or not, without alcohol, and its effect on humans, beer and wine would be mere regional cultural beverages, like the soft drink malta.
Worldwide, people consume alcoholic beverages in large quantities because they contain alcohol. Enzymes in the cytosol catalyze this reaction and the other metabolic reactions that follow. Not all pyruvate ends up as ethanol. It has two possible paths: enter a mitochondrion and get broken down to CO2 and water aerobic respiration , or stay in the cytosol, where the cell converts it to acetaldehyde and then ethanol. Which path would you prefer, water or ethanol? Well, yeast would rather not make ethanol and they only produce it under Figure 2. special conditions, such as high! Yeast get more energy from converting pyruvate into water and CO2 in the presence of oxygen.
To make yeast produce ethanol we need anaerobic fermentation. The main reason yeast cells prefer aerobic respiration is that it enables them to get the maximum energy out of a molecule of glucose. During anaerobic fermentation, when they produce ethanol, yeast only get 8 percent as much energy from each molecule of glucose. It is easy to see why a yeast culture is able to bud more daughter cells with oxygen available. So why do yeast produce ethanol at all, if it is so inefficient? Because being able to produce ethanol gives them a way to survive in one more environment: an anaerobic environment. If there is oxygen, the pyruvate from this step goes to the mitochondria, where it enters the Krebs cycle. The Krebs cycle produces an energy-rich compound called adenosine triphosphate ATP. ATP is important to the cell, because it provides the cell with energy for protein synthesis and DNA replication, which is critical for population growth.
If the cell is without oxygen, the pyruvate from that step does not go through the Krebs cycle. the following way. While the yeast are not exactly happy about producing Figure 2. As the yeast make ethanol, it diffuses outside the cell. This is possibly a defense mechanism, since ethanol is toxic to many other organisms. In fact, as the alcohol level increases it becomes toxic Figure 2. The lactic acid. better the health of the yeast, the better they are able to tolerate the alcohol and finish fermentation. This change in the glucose conversion pathway under oxygen-limiting conditions is very similar to what happens to human cells when they lack oxygen. During heavy exercise, oxygen is limiting to muscle cell activity. The only reason our muscles do not make ethanol instead is that human cells lack the enzyme pyruvate decarboxylase.
There is another way yeast will ferment anaerobically and still produce ethanol: the Crabtree effect. This is very important to brewing. If there is a high-enough glucose concentration, even in the presence of oxygen, yeast produce ethanol anaerobic fermentation. The fact is that the concentration of glycolytic enzymes is so high that during wort fermentation yeast produce ATP faster by glycolysis alone than they do by oxidative phosphorylation. The problem with oxygen exposure during fermentation is not the loss of ethanol, but rather the activation of metabolic pathways that produce off-flavors. For example, beer fermentations exposed to oxygen have higher concentrations of acetaldehyde, due to oxidation of ethanol into acetaldehyde. Flocculation Flocculation is the almost magical ability of yeast to clump together. Near the end of fermentation, single cells aggregate into clumps of thousands of cells.
Different strains have different flocculation characteristics. Some strains flocculate earlier and tend not to attenuate as much, while others do not flocculate as readily and tend to attenuate more. Flocculating too early tends to result in a beer that is underattenuated and sweet. However, when yeast fail to flocculate entirely, it results in a beer that is cloudy with a yeasty taste. Most wild yeast strains do not flocculate well and remain in suspension for extended periods. In nature, most yeast cells do not want to drop out of suspension, because in suspension they have nutrients and sugar available to them.
All yeast will eventually drop out of a liquid with the help of gravity, but this can take months, and most brewers do not have that kind of time. By harvesting yeast from either the bottom or top of the fermentor for repitching, brewers left behind the yeast cells that did not flocculate well. The yeast left behind in the beer did not get the chance to replicate in the next batch, removing them from the population. The flocculent yeast strains we use today are descendents of that process of selective pressure. Scientists have studied the biochemistry of flocculation for many years, and even today, the exact mechanism is still debated. Cell wall composition is a key factor in the ability of adjacent cells to stick to each other.
Yeast have a thick cell wall made up of protein and polysaccharides with a net negative surface charge due to phosphates in the cell wall. The extent of the negative charge depends on the yeast strain, phase of growth, oxygen availability, starvation, generation number, dehydration, and cell age Smart, Yeast cells are also hydrophobic due to exposure of hydrophobic peptides Hazen and Hazen, The degree of hydrophobicity is dependent on yeast strain, phase of growth, ability to form chains, starvation, generation number, flocculation onset, and fibril formation Smart, Yeast cell walls also have mannoproteins, proteins with large numbers of mannose groups attached, to help regulate cell shape, porosity, and cell-cell interactions, including those involved in flocculation.
The primary determinant of flocculation is the yeast strain itself. Each yeast strain has its own unique DNA sequence, which determines the exact set of proteins displayed on the cell surface. These minute differ-! Factors that influence the degree of flocculation include the original gravity of the wort, temperature of fermentation, pitching rate, and initial oxygen content. Keep in mind anything that affects the health and growth rate of the yeast affects flocculation. Brewers classify yeast as high, medium, or low flocculators Figure 2. Ale strains span each category, while lager strains are predominantly medium flocculators. Centuries of top cropping in Britain have selected for highly flocculent yeast. Interestingly, even though centuries of top cropping has made those strains so flocculent, in recent times brewers have put selective pressure on them to make them better bottom croppers. Today they are just as flocculent, but often they are also excellent bottom croppers.
While high flocculation quickly results in clear beer, fil-! A high flocculator begins to clump in three to five days. When it drops to the bottom of the fermentor, it forms a solid, compact yeast cake. In fact, some strains are so flocculent that they can form tight plugs that block openings and clog valves. Homebrewers working with small fermentors sometimes swirl the yeast cake to maintain fermentation activity, but even so, the yeast cake only breaks down into large chunks. Producing a fully attenuated beer with high flocculators can require special attention, such as rousing the yeast back into the beer. Even with such measures, highly flocculent strains usually result in lower attenuation and increased levels of diacetyl and esters. Because the cells stay in suspension longer, they attenuate the beer more and reduce diacetyl and other fermentation compounds to a greater degree.
In a commercial brewery, they are slightly more difficult to work with than high flocculators, because they often require filtering for a quick turnaround. Of course, most homebrewers do not filter, and with enough time medium flocculators will settle out on their own; they just take longer than highly flocculent yeast. Medium flocculators, and their tendency toward clean fermentation characteristics, make them well suited to highly hopped beers like many American-style ales. Their clean flavors allow the hop aroma and flavor to come through. Brewers rarely use low flocculators, because they do not settle out, creating haze and filtering problems. However, some beer styles should have yeast in suspension. For example, the German hefeweizen and Belgian witbier styles both require low flocculating yeast strains to create the desired cloudy appearance.
Some breweries will filter their hefeweizen and then add back lager yeast at packaging time. Because lager strains are less flocculent and tend to stay in suspension longer, they are better able to clean up a beer during an extended fermentation and lagering process. There are some very dusty lager strains, which work well for providing that cloudy yeast appearance. One important factor in flocculation is calcium. The yeast require certain minimal levels of calcium present for flocculation to occur. Wort usually has enough calcium, and the brewer does not need to add more. If you are working with very soft water, keep in mind the calcium! hTPbc requirement. Enzymes Yeast is not the only beer ingredient that brewers fail to appreciate fully— enzymes are a close second. Consider this: without enzymes, there would be no beer.
There are enzymes involved in all phases of the brewing process: malting, mashing, and fermentation. At its core, brewing is an enzymatic process. The more a brewer knows about enzymes, the more he can troubleshoot problems. Enzymes are a special class of proteins that speed up chemical reactions. They are essential to life and are present in all living things. An enzyme is a protein created by living organisms or synthetically that acts as a catalyst in chemical reactions, initiating or speeding up the rate at which a reaction proceeds without altering itself in the process. In the middle of the nineteenth century, chemists studying the process of fermentation proved the existence of enzymes. In Eduard Buchner was the first to prepare a cell extract that still exhibited catalytic activity. He showed that the filtered, cell-free liquor from crushed yeast cells could convert sugar to carbon dioxide.
Buchner earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work. While not credited with discovering the role of enzymes, he proved that yeast were responsible for the conversion of wort sugar to alcohol. Chemists at the time adamantly stated that the living organism yeast had no role in sugar transformation. They insisted that the process was strictly chemical, not biological. They assumed it was something in the wort, such as oxygen, that catalyzed the transformation. The chemists were partially correct, as yeast contain enzymes for fermentation, which act as the catalyst for many parts of the conversion of sugar to alcohol. From a fermentation standpoint, yeast cells are just bags of enzymes. Enzymes are proteins, and proteins are made of amino acids, one of the main biological components in living systems.
Hundreds of amino acids make up a single protein molecule. Not all enzymes are the same size; they can vary from about fifty amino acids to , and are often larger than the substrates they act upon. The part of the enzyme that is most important is the active site within the enzyme. The active site is a region of the enzyme with amino acids in the correct orientation to facilitate a given chemical reaction on a substrate—very similar to a key and lock. Each enzyme can catalyze one unique chemical reaction, but they can catalyze the reaction in both directions. The direction depends on the conditions and the available substrate. Let us look at the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase and the reaction of acetaldehyde to ethanol. As an example of the reverse reaction, humans have alcohol dehydrogenase, which our bodies use to break down ethanol into acetaldehyde. Without the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, the above reaction would still theoretically take place, but it would take days instead of picoseconds.
Life is so dependent on enzymes each human cell has more than 3, of them that before the s, chemists were convinced enzymes contained the genetic code and DNA was just a structural component. Brewing yeast do not possess all of the enzymes needed to make beer from barley. For example, yeast cells do not produce amylase enzymes, which convert starch to sugar. This is why a brewer must first utilize the barley enzymes in the mash, in order to convert the starch to sugar. How Do Enzymes Work? To catalyze a particular reaction, an enzyme binds to a substrate. These bonds are tight, but the completion of the reaction changes the substrate and changes the nature of the bond, releasing the enzyme to be attracted to a new substrate. Brewers can control most of these factors, so it is important to understand what the enzymes need, and thereby control the activity and products.
Controlling temperature is perhaps the most important factor. Enzymes are made of amino acids, and each enzyme folds a specific way to make the active site available. If the enzyme denatures, it loses its activity and does not recover. Heat is the main cause of enzyme unfolding. Boiling will denature most enzymes, but even slight temperature increases will denature many. For example, mash temperatures near the maximum for amylase enzymes will denature many proteases. pH is also very important because it affects the binding of the enzyme to its substrate. Binding involves the interaction of individual amino acids, and that interaction is usually dependent on the electrostatic charge on those amino acids. Without the correct charge, binding does not take place.
The charge varies with pH, depending on the amino acid, and each enzyme has its own optimal pH. Just like temperature, a pH that is too low or too high can permanently denature deactivate the enzyme. When adding enzymes, you should note the temperature and pH activity profiles the manufacturer recommends. Enzymes in Malting Most brewers are familiar with the conversion of starch to sugar via enzymatic reactions during the mashing process, but enzymes also play a big role during the malting process. Starch breakdown during malting is critical to producing high-quality malt. The barley embryo grain needs sugar to grow.
Enzymes in the growing embryo break down starch and proteins into smaller, soluble fractions in preparation for the embryo to grow. Three types of enzymes are responsible for this action: "! The proteases enzymes that degrade proteins then degrade the matrix proteins. Next, protease action creates free amino acids groups, which the growing embryo uses to manufacture proteins. Endoenzymes remove pieces from the interior of a large molecule, and exoenzymes remove pieces from the end of large molecules. The amylase enzymes convert starch to sugar, which the embryo would use for growth. If the maltster allowed enzyme activity to continue, the remaining starch would convert to sugar. This is part of the process of making crystal malts, but if the maltster made all malts that way, we would no longer conduct the mash. The maltster would have already determined the sugar fermentability for us, and we would only steep these grains to extract the sugars.
For example, performing a ferulic acid rest around ° F 43° C can increase the level of ferulic acid in the wort, which some yeast strains can convert to 4-vinyl guaiacol, a characteristic flavor and aroma component of German weizen. Protein rests can have an impact on fermentation, too, because they can increase the amino acid levels in the wort. This is not necessary when using well-modified malt, but undermodified or six-row malts may require a protein rest. The one thing that most brewers understand is that controlling the mash temperature to effect the enzyme activity affects the balance of simpler sugars versus more complex sugars.
Wort with a higher percentage of complex sugars dextrins is less fermentable. While some strains may have more success with maltotriose, the effect is relative. As a general rule, the higher the mash temperature, the less fermentable the wort. Enzymes in Fermentation Now the money part begins. There would not be a large market for beer if yeast did not create alcohol during fermentation. In fact, it happens in many more steps, and requires many enzymes, with different enzymes catalyzing each step. Yeast use the energy created from the oxidation of sugar to ethanol to strengthen themselves and to reproduce. As far as yeast cells are concerned, the alcohol they produce is a by-product. Each chemical reaction also has the potential of producing by-products.
Each step can lead to the production of those flavor and aroma compounds you desire, or those you do not. Even though brewers rarely add enzymes to fermentation, there are some cases where they can be beneficial. Even though it is very rare, a stuck fermentation can be due to inefficient starch conversion or too many long-chain, unfermentable sugars. Of course, there are drawbacks to this method. The manufacturers propagate these enzyme preparations from a microbial source, so they may contain a small quantity of bacteria. Adding these enzymes to the beer, without the benefit of the boil, has the potential to spoil the beer. The allowable levels of bacteria in these enzyme products often range in the area of 1, to 5, colony forming units CFU , and that is just not acceptable in beer Briggs, et al. After pitching, yeast undergo a lag phase, which is then followed by a very rapid exponential growth phase.
During both the lag and exponential phase, yeast build amino acids, proteins, and other cell components. Most of these components do not affect the flavor of the beer, but the pathways involved in their production also create many other compounds that do leak out of the cell and impact beer flavor. The compounds with the largest flavor impact are esters, fusel alcohols, sulfur-containing compounds, and carbonyl compounds like aldehydes and ketones including diacetyl. Although many of these compounds play a role in the characteristic flavor and aroma of beer, it is a beer flaw when some of these compounds reach higher, easily detectable levels. Esters Esters play a big role in the character of beer, especially in ales. An ester is a volatile compound formed from an organic acid and an alcohol, and it is esters that provide the fruity aromas and flavors that you find in beer. Without esters, a beer would seem quite bland. We can measure esters by gas chromatography, and ester profiles are a good way to differentiate beers.
Ester production varies by yeast strain and fermentation conditions. Examples of common esters are ethyl acetate solvent , ethyl caproate apple , and isoamyl acetate banana. The process of combining an acid and an alcohol to form an ester takes some time, since the yeast need to create the alcohols first. Esters have more of a flavor impact than acids and alcohol independently Bamforth, Beer flavours: esters, The alcohol acetyltransferase enzymes AATase I and II catalyze ester formation. These enzymes combine an alcohol with an activated acid. In beer, the most abundant activated acid is acetyl-CoA. Pre-fermentation, when the brewer adds oxygen, the yeast produce sterols in preparation for budding new cells.
This sterol production takes away acetyl-CoA from ester production, which results in lower ester levels in the beer Bamforth, Beer flavours: esters. This is one explanation of the oxygen effect, where higher aeration levels result in lower ester levels. Many other factors affect ester production, but factors that increase yeast growth and take away acetyl-CoA will often minimize ester synthesis. Three main factors control ester production: the concentration of acetyl-CoA, the concentration of fusel alcohol, and the total activity of certain enzymes. Fusel Alcohols We can use gas chromatography to measure fusel alcohols at the same time we measure esters. Beer can contain any combination of approximately forty fusel alcohols Meilgaard, Fusel alcohols such as n-propanol, isoamyl alcohol, and isobutanol taste similar to ethanol, although they can add warming, hot, or solvent flavors to beer depending on type and concentration.
There are no beer styles where hot and solventy are desired traits. However, many good-tasting beers do contain fusel alcohols in quantities at or a little above their flavor thresholds, so they are important yeast-derived flavor components of beer. Of the fusel alcohols, beer contains primarily amyl alcohols, such as isoamyl alcohol. In wine, isoamyl alcohol can account for more than 50 percent of all fusel alcohols Zoecklein, et al. People generally attribute headaches to the fusel alcohols in alcoholic beverages. High levels of hot fusel alcohols in an average-strength beer are a true flaw. Even in bigger beers, they should be, at most, a background note. There is no excuse for brewing beer that tastes like paint thinner. During the lag phase of fermentation, yeast begin to form fusel alcohols either from pyruvate and acetyl-CoA during amino acid synthesis or from uptake of amino acids nitrogen. Yeast strains vary in fusel alcohol production, with ale strains generally producing higher fusel alcohol concentrations than lager strains.
Researchers often attribute this to the higher fermentation temperature of ales. It is true that fusel alcohol concentrations increase with fermentation temperature; however, other fermentation conditions have an effect on fusel alcohol production as well. For example, wort with either too little or too much nitrogen can also result in the production of higher alcohols. When there is more fusel alcohol substrate, there is a greater opportunity for ester formation with any acetyl-CoA present. Brewing a lower-ester beer is a balancing act of controlling the factors that help prevent ester formation but also increase fusel alcohol production. Diacetyl Even though many classic beer styles allow for low levels of diacetyl, and some consumers find it pleasant, many brewers consider diacetyl a flaw in any quantity. In higher quantities, diacetyl gives beer a buttery or butterscotchlike aroma and flavor.
Diacetyl is a small organic compound that belongs to the ketone chemical group. Another ketone commonly found in beer is 2,3-pentanedione. The flavor threshold of diacetyl is 0. Homebrewed and craft-brewed beer can often have levels from 0. One reason many brewers do not like the presence of diacetyl in their beer is because it is an indicator of a possible fermentation or contamination problem. However, there are exceptions where diacetyl is an intended characteristic of the beer. This is most likely because of the yeast strain and the fermentation profile the brewery practices. Some yeast strains, particularly highly flocculent English ale strains, are heavy diacetyl producers. Crashing the fermentation temperature early, which keeps the yeast from reducing diacetyl, is another way beer ends up with a detectable level of diacetyl.
Just remember, the longer the yeast stay in suspension, the more time they have to reduce many intermediary fermentation compounds. Fortunately, yeast will reabsorb diacetyl and reduce it to acetoin in order to regenerate NAD. The pathway for diacetyl in beer is relatively simple. Valine is one of the amino acids yeast produce during the lag and exponential phase. An intermediate compound in valine production is acetolactate. Not all of the acetolactate yeast produce becomes valine, as some leaks out of the cell and into the beer. The acetolactate that leaks from the cell into the beer chemically oxidizes into diacetyl. Organic Acids During fermentation, yeast also produce varying levels of organic acids such as acetic, lactic, butyric, and caproic.
In most fermentations, the concentrations produced are below the flavor threshold, which is usually a good thing. These acids have flavors and aromas of vinegar, vomit, and barnyard animals. However, these acids are necessary, as they play a key role in ester formation. Sulfur Compounds Who farted? Many first-time lager brewers may ask that question. Lager brewing produces more sulfur compounds than ale brewing. The lower temperature of lager brewing is a key factor in higher sulfur levels Bamforth, Beer flavour: sulphur substances, Yeast produce sulfur compounds in large quantities during fermentation, but these compounds generally are volatile enough that strong fermentation activity drives them from solution along with the CO2, greatly reducing sulfur levels by the time you or a customer drink the beer. The lower temperatures of lager fermentation generally result in a less vigorous fermentation less physical movement of the wort and less evolution of gases due to higher gas solubility at those temperatures.
Therefore, lager beers tend to retain detectable amounts of sulfur aroma and flavor, while it is unusual to find sulfur in most ales. The sulfur compounds typically found in beer are dimethyl sulfide DMS , sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and mercaptans. Some of these sulfur compounds come from malt, while others come from yeast or a combination of both. For example, dimethyl sulphoxide DMSO is present in wort at varying levels, depending on the source malt. The level of this oxidized DMS compound is not affected by the boil like DMS and its precursor S-methylmethionine SMM. Unfortunately, yeast has the ability to reduce DMSO back to DMS during fermentation, increasing the level of those canned corn and cooked cabbage types of aromas and flavors in the beer.
Yeast produce sulfur dioxide, which not only flavors the beer but gives it antioxidant properties. People often describe the aroma of sulfur dioxide as similar to a burnt match. Fortunately, the CO2 released from fermentation carries most of the hydrogen sulfide out of the beer. The key to reducing these sulfur compounds in beer is to have an active, healthy fermentation. Phenolic Compounds Phenolic compounds, which are hydroxylated aromatic carbon rings, can come from ingredients and from fermentation. Phenol-based antiseptics contain them, which is why people often describe phenolic compounds as medicinal tasting. Phenolic compounds are also described as plastic, Band-Aid, smoky, and spicy.
Phenolic compounds are less volatile than fusel alcohols, which means they stay in the beer throughout aging. Once phenolic compounds are present at a detectable level, you will probably always taste them. In most beer styles, phenolic flavors are a flaw, although there are some obvious exceptions. Bavarian hefeweizen must have clove, rauchbier must have smoke, and some Belgian beers have other phenolic characters, but when phenols turn up unintentionally, it can be a disaster. The major phenolic compound most yeast Figure 2. Malt and hydroxylated aromatic ring.
hops supply ferulic acid, and yeast produce 4 VG from the decarboxylation of the ferulic acid by the enzyme ferulic acid decarboxylase. Decarboxylation is the chemical reduction of a compound by the evolution of CO2. Those yeast that produce phenols have an intact phenolic off-flavor POF gene, which is required for coding ferulic acid decarboxylase. In fact, the unintentional production of a phenolic character is a good indication that wild yeast has con- Figure 2. You might ask, what about the yeast strains for making Bavarianstyle hefeweizen? These are good examples of once wild yeast strains that brewers purified and cultured over time, without selecting against phenolic compounds.
The POF gene remains intact in these strains, and they produce the characteristic phenols for the style. Brettanomyces is naturally abundant in the environment, often found living on fruit skins. It does not mind fermentation conditions, and it is alcohol tolerant. It can produce flavors and aromas reminiscent of a barnyard, horse blanket, sweat, and a wide array of other flavor compounds, including 4 VG. Its presence in beer is easily detected and even desired in some beer styles such as Belgian lambic, Flanders red, and many newer craft beer creations. Fermentation is not the only source of phenolic compounds. Sometimes a brewer adds them intentionally, by using smoked malts, for example. In wine, phenolic character comes from the yeast, but it can also come from oak contact and from the fruit used.
Whiskey also gets phenols from ingredients, yeast, and barrel aging. Beer produced with certain fruits and wood aging can pick up phenolic compounds, as well. A yeast strain that they have used for countless batches is what they will use for this new creation as well. In many cases, using the house strain is their only option. That is understandable, but when a brewer has the option to choose any strain he or she wants, it is a shame to stick with just one. Often it is not that these brewers lack creativity or an interest in exploring new strains, but rather that they are unsure how to select the best candidates to produce the desired character. Selection Criteria When trying to select a new strain for fermentation, it pays to know your priorities. It is like building a house; you know you need fasteners, but the type of fastener depends on the type of house you are building. Townhouse, dollhouse, outhouse, they all have similar but different fastener requirements.
What is it you are trying to build? It is important to start with a concept of the beer you are trying to craft. Is it dry and hoppy? Sweet and malty? Clean or estery? High in alcohol or low? Once you have a feel for what you are creating, then you can begin finding strains that might work. Certainly, it is possible and even likely that you will not find a single strain that meets all your requirements, hTPbc but do not forget that it is also possible to use multiple strains in one beer. In most cases, manipulating one fermentation attribute causes a shift in another.
For example, pushing the working temperature of a yeast strain higher to fit the needs of your brewhouse will most likely produce more flavor compounds than you intended. Fermenting at a cooler temperature to minimize ester production can reduce the level of attenuation. All of the yeast attributes are interrelated, and you cannot manipulate one without affecting another. How do you make a choice? How do you decide which yeast is best for your brown ale? You can review company literature, talk to other brewers, or search the web, but the best way is to do some experiments. Make enough of your brown ale wort to divide it into several different fermentors, and pitch a different strain into each fermentor. It is necessary to keep the same conditions, especially pitching rate and temperature, so you can compare the effect each strain has on the beer.
Once you zero in on a strain, then you can repeat the experiment using that strain at different temperatures, oxygen levels, or pitching rates. If you practice yeast re-use, you might also want to repeat the experiment on a small scale five or more times to see how the character changes over generations. Beer Styles and Yeast Selection Some brewers might ask why there is a need to discuss beer style in a book on yeast. Yes and no. With wine, the main ingredient, grapes, often determines the style. The wine world uses the grape varietal, or sometimes the production region, to classify the wine. When brewing, you can use malt and hops from different regions interchangeably.
Yes, citrusy American hops are a signature trait in some styles. Biscuity British pale ale malt and grainy continental Pilsener malt provide a key component of some other styles, but the main differentiators of beer styles are process, recipe, and yeast selection. In fact, yeast play such a big role in the character of a beer that in some cases the yeast strain is the key difference between two styles. Compare the grist of a typical California common and a Düsseldorf altbier recipe: even though they are very similar, the beers are significantly different because of the yeast selection. The average beer consumer will often divide beer into ale and lager categories, but that is the broadest of divisions. Although ale and lager are technically valid style categorizations, there are yeast strains and beer styles that defy those boundaries.
There are hybrid styles of beer that fall in between ale and lager. These are beers fermented with lager yeast at ale temperatures or ale yeasts fermented at colder than normal ale temperatures. As of this publication, the Beer Judge Certification Program BJCP recognizes eighty distinct beer styles in twenty-three categories. The BJCP groups many of the styles by ale, lager, or hybrid and by geographic origin and strength. Because mass-market lager beers are so popular, you might think they count for a disproportionate number of styles, but they do not. Lagers compose less than one-quarter of the styles, which makes sense because lagers are relatively new to the brewing world.
Many of these styles are the result of brewers tailoring their beer to local preferences. Unknowingly or not, those brewers were selecting for preferred characteristics by harvesting and reusing only the yeast that produced beer that they and their customers wanted. This selective pressure is what resulted in the beer styles and yeast strains we use today. You will find that most yeast suppliers identify their yeast as ale or lager first, then further identify the strains by geographic location country, region, city or by style name. If you are purchasing yeast from one of these suppliers, it is easy to identify potential choices based on these broad categories and the yeast description. Want to brew a Belgian-style beer? If you want to brew a German-style lager or " hTPbc English-style ale, that is just as easy. Of course, this just gets you in the ballpark, and you will want to take into account all your selection criteria to determine exactly which strains best fit your needs.
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Enzymes in the cytosol catalyze this reaction and the other metabolic reactions that follow. Consider this: without enzymes, there would be no beer. They use more of them in brewing Belgiantype ales than in other beer styles. Some breweries will filter their hefeweizen and then add back lager yeast at packaging time. The Brewers Association was a natural place for me to publish the book; Ray Daniels was very helpful in the beginning, then Kristi Switzer took over and has done a great job. However, some beer styles should have yeast in suspension. Fix divided yeast strains into five categories in an attempt at organizing them in terms of flavor characteristics.
Yet used intentionally, in the hands of a skilled brewer, these yeasts can produce a pleasing balance of flavors that blend well with the other ingredients. Difford's Guide: Days of Cocktails: The Perfect Cocktail for Every Day of the Year PDF. Diacetyl is a small organic compound that belongs to the ketone chemical group. While I had missed out on learning about beer, wine, or yeast like so many of my friends at UC Davis, I did gain a passion and talent for learning that I could put to use. At its core, yeast the practical guide to beer fermentation pdf download, brewing is an enzymatic process. During anaerobic fermentation, when they produce ethanol, yeast only get 8 percent as much energy from each molecule of glucose. Fusel Alcohols We can use gas chromatography to measure fusel alcohols at the same time we measure esters.
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