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Microbes eating sugar and politely returning bread, beer, and funk.
means The metabolic process where yeast or bacteria convert sugars into acids, gases, or alcohol, transforming food and drink.
from From Latin fervere, to boil — because bubbling vats looked alive long before anyone met the yeast doing the work.
Yeast countA pint of beer brewed by billions of microbes.
Ancient habitHumans fermented drinks over 9,000 years ago.
Two pathsWith oxygen you breathe, without it you ferment.
Sour everythingYogurt, kimchi, soy sauce all owe their tang here.