Selecting Yeast in Beer Brewing and Wine Making Humankind has benefited from fermentation products, but from the yeast's point of view, alcohol and carbon dioxide are just waste products.

Scientists from Kobe University have achieved a groundbreaking feat by bioengineering yeast to produce high levels of ...

Gethin: OK, so why does yeast - or yeast fungus, should I say - make alcohol for us? Mr Shribman: Well, yeast have got our backs, I suppose. Actually, they don't really like making alcohol.

glucose → ethanol + carbon dioxide Yeast provides the enzymes required ... to stop people from drinking it. Ethanol is the alcohol in beer, wine and spirits. It is also a fuel and a solvent.