Improvement of the ethanol productivity in a high gravity brewing at pilot plant scale

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1171-1174

  Dragone, Giuliano ^a   Silva, Daniel P ^a   De Almeida E Silva, João Batista ^a   De Almeida Lima, Urgel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Factorial design; Fermentation; High gravity brewing; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CULTURE MEDIUM; FERMENTATION; GRAVITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CULTURE MEDIA; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; HYPERGRAVITY; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0041629157     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024590324230     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Almeida RB, Almeida e Silva JB, Lima UA, Silva DP, Assis NA (2001) Evaluation of fermentation parameters during high-gravity beer production. Braz. J. Chem. Eng. 18: 459-465.
2. Analytica EBC (1987) 4th edn. Zürich: Brauerei und Getränke-Rundschau.
3. Casey GP, Magnus CA, Ingledew WM (1983) High gravity brewing: nutrient enhanced production of high concentrations of ethanol by brewing yeast. Biotechnol. Lett. 5: 429-434.
4. Casey GP, Magnus CA, Ingledew WM (1984) High gravity brewing: effects of nutrition on yeast composition, fermentative ability, and alcohol production. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 48: 639-646.
5. Lodolo EJ, O'Connor-Cox E, Axcell B (1999) Optimization of the dissolved oxygen supply for high-gravity brewing. MBAA Tech. Quart. 36: 139-154.
6. McCaig R, McKee J, Pfisterer EA, Hysert DW, Munoz E, Ingledew WM (1992) Very high gravity brewing - laboratory and pilot plant trials. J. Am. Soc. Brew. Chem. 50: 18-26.
7. O'Connor-Cox ESC, Ingledew WM (1991) Alleviation of the effects of nitrogen limitation in high gravity worts through increased inoculation rates. J. Ind. Microbiol. 7: 89-96.
8. Pátková J, Smogrovicová D, Dömény Z, Bafrncová P (2000) Very high gravity wort fermentation by immobilised yeast. Biotechnol. Lett. 22: 1173-1177.
9. Russell I, Stewart GG (1995) Brewing. In: Reed G, Nagodawithana TW, eds. Biotechnology. A Multi-Volume Comprehensive Treatise, Vol. 9. Weinheim: VCH, pp. 419-462.
10. Stewart GG, Russell I (1993) Fermentation - the 'black box' of the brewing process. MBAA Tech. Quart. 30: 159-168.
11. Stewart GG, D'Amore T, Panchal CJ, Russell I (1988) Factors that influence the ethanol tolerance of brewer's yeast strains during high gravity wort fermentations. MBAA Tech. Quart. 25: 47-53.
12. Suihko ML, Vilpola A, Linko M (1993) Pitching rate in high gravity brewing. J. Inst. Brew. 99: 341-346.