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Reactors for continuous primary beer fermentation using immobilised yeast

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A continuous multistage column bioreactor with fluidised beds and continuous gas-lift bioreactor system with immobilised yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was developed for the first step of wort fermentation. The system of gas-lift reactor with yeast entrapped in calcium pectate beads was stable for 5 weeks by the optimal residence time of 12.75h and produced beer with a composition and flavour profile similar to that of beer produced by batch fermentation. Concentration of diacetyl was less than 0.1mg/l.

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  1. Department of Biochemical Technology, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Slovak Technical University, Radlinskeho 9, SK-812 37, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Daniela Smogrovicova´, Zolta´n Do¨mény & Ernest Sturdi´k

  2. Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska´ cesta 9, SK-842 38, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Peter Gemeiner & Anna Malovi´kova´

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Smogrovicova´, D., Do¨mény, Z., Gemeiner, P. et al. Reactors for continuous primary beer fermentation using immobilised yeast . Biotechnology Techniques 11, 261–264 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018494606777

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