The fermentation process must occur twice: the second time in the bottle.

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The yeast fuses itself to the surface and feeds the wort at an increased rate, meaning the fermentation process takes only a few hours.

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At its worst, the wine can smell a bit like that, too, if a certain yeast strain called Brettanomyces makes its way into the fermentation process.

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Ale is how beer was made for millennia--natural yeasts in the air attacked the blend of water, hops and malted barley and started the fermentation process.

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According to Elliott Marcus, an associate health commissioner, Korean restaurants don't get penalized when kimchi is being made (the fermentation process often requires leaving vegetables, most commonly cabbage, out at room temperature for days).

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Once the fermentation process that creates the methane is finished, the remaining solid matter, or "digestate" is used as an organic fertilizer for crops that will later be used as feedstock for the animals.

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The fermentation process takes about 10 days.

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Many creative processes are sabotaged at the beginning, when impatient designers rush through or skip the creative fermentation process in order to get to the so-called good stuff.

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Not only passionate about the use of local hops, the company employed traditional batch-brewing methods and ingredients, eschewing the shortcuts of the mass-market continuous fermentation process.

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BP, a British energy firm, has worked out how to industrialise the process of making biobutanol, as the chemical is commonly known when it is the product of fermentation.

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