Anaerobic degradation of GLUCOSE or other organic nutrients to gain energy in the form of ATP. End products vary depending on organisms, substrates, and enzymatic pathways. Common fermentation products include ETHANOL and LACTIC ACID.
    

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Études sur la bière : ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre inaltérable; avec une théorie nouvelle de la fermentation / par L. Pasteur.

Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors watching beer fermenting in a large brewhouse. Wood-engraving, 1847.

A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.

Fermenting backs and workers in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.

The application of genetically modified lactic acid bacteria in food products in Europe : the report of a workshop held in Geneva, CH on 16-18 November 1998 / editor: Paul Wymer.

Technical mycology : the utilization of micro-organisms in the arts and manufactures a practical handbook on fermentation and fermentative processes, for the use of brewers and distillers, analysts, technical and agricultural chemists, pharmacists, and all interested in the industries dependent on fermentation / by Franz Lafar ; translated by Charles T.C. Salter.

Practical fermentation : a guide for schools and colleges / John Schollar and Benedikte Watmore ; consultant editor, John Grainger.

On the nature of fermentation : the introductory address delivered in King's College, London, at the opening of the session October 1, 1877 / [Joseph Lister].

Zosimi Panopolitani De zythorum confectione fragmentum nunc primum graece ac latine editum : accedit historia zythorum sive cerevisiarum quarum apud veteres mentio fit / scripsit D. Christianus Gottfridus Gruner.

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The application of genetically modified lactic acid bacteria in food products in Europe : the report of a workshop held in Geneva, CH on 16-18 November 1998 / editor: Paul Wymer.

Practical fermentation : a guide for schools and colleges / John Schollar and Benedikte Watmore ; consultant editor, John Grainger.

On the nature of fermentation : the introductory address delivered in King's College, London, at the opening of the session October 1, 1877 / [Joseph Lister].

Zosimi Panopolitani De zythorum confectione fragmentum nunc primum graece ac latine editum : accedit historia zythorum sive cerevisiarum quarum apud veteres mentio fit / scripsit D. Christianus Gottfridus Gruner.