zymology
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Fermentation
- History
- Products
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
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Zymology, also known as zymurgy, is an applied science that studies the biochemical process of fermentation and its practical uses. Common topics include the selection of fermenting yeast and bacteria species and their use in brewing, wine making, fermenting milk, and the making of other fermented foods.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “zymology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.