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Zymurgy or zymology is the study of fermentation. The word was originally used to describe the science involved in these processes but it has since become more broadly used to describe the brewing of alcoholic beverages. A zymurgist (or zymologist) is one who studies zymurgy.

Zymurgy is the name of a homebrewers magazine. The word also can be found in the names of several organizations involved in brewing alcohol.

History

Louis Pasteur is considered to have been the first zymologist when, in 1857, he connected yeast to fermentation. Pasteur originally defined fermentation as "respiration without air". The German Eduard Buchner, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in chemistry, later determined that fermentation was actually caused by the yeast's secretion of an enzyme that he called zymase.[1]

Trivia

Zymurgy is the last word in most English-language dictionaries, excluding proper nouns and onomatopoetic words.

See also

References

1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929. Retrieved on 2007-01-28.
Fermentation typically refers to the conversion of sugar to alcohol using yeast under anaerobic conditions. A more general definition of fermentation is the chemical conversion of carbohydrates into alcohols or acids.
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Brewing is the production of alcoholic beverages and alcohol fuel through fermentation. This is the method used in beer production, although the term is also used to describe the fermentation process used to create sake and soy sauce.
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An alcoholic beverage (also known as booze in slang term) is a drink containing ethanol, commonly known as alcohol, although in chemistry the definition of alcohol includes many other compounds.
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Homebrew can mean:
  • Homebrewing (of beer)
  • Homebrew (tabletop role-playing game)
  • Homebrew (video games)
  • Homebrew Computer Club
  • Amateur radio homebrew
  • Homebrew (Neneh Cherry album)
  • "Homebrew", song by 311 from their 1994 album Grassroots.

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Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, drinking alcohol or grain alcohol, is a flammable, colorless, slightly toxic chemical compound, and is best known as the alcohol found in alcoholic beverages.
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Louis Pasteur (December 27 1822 – September 28 1895) was a French chemist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in microbiology. His experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, also reducing mortality from puerperal fever (childbed), and he created the first
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Ascomycota (sac fungi)
  • Saccharomycotina (true yeasts)
  • Taphrinomycotina
  • Schizosaccharomycetes (fission yeasts)
Basidiomycota (club fungi)
  • Urediniomycetes

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Eduard Buchner

Eduard Buchner
Born May 20 1860
Munich, Germany
Died July 13 1917 (aged 57)
Munich, Germany
Residence Germany
Nationality German
Field Biochemistry
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Zymase is an enzyme complex that catalyzes glycolysis, the fermentation of sugar into ethanol and carbon dioxide. As the conversion takes place, the reaction will gradually slow down. They occur naturally in yeasts. See alcohol dehydrogenase.
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Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
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Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng  
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Onomatopoeia (occasionally spelled onomatopœia) is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, suggesting its source object, such as "click," "buzz," or "bluuuh," or animal noises
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The history of wine spans thousands of years and is closely intertwined with the history of agriculture, cuisine, civilization and man himself.

Early history

Wine residue has been identified by Patrick McGovern's team at the University Museum, Pennsylvania, in ancient
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Beer is the world's oldest[1] [2] alcoholic beverage, dating back to at least the 6th millennium BC and recorded in the written history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Etymology

Of the two terms, beer and ale, the latter is the older in English.
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Fermentation typically refers to the conversion of sugar to alcohol using yeast under anaerobic conditions. A more general definition of fermentation is the chemical conversion of carbohydrates into alcohols or acids.
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