Skip to main content

Alcohol Fermentation

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

Alcohol fermentation converts pyruvate to ethanol in two steps, releasing carbon dioxide first and then regenerating NAD+ as acetaldehyde is reduced.

Show

Yeast fermenting grape sugars produces both the ethanol found in wine and the carbon dioxide that pressurizes a sealed fermentation tank.

Watch for

Alcohol fermentation releases carbon dioxide as a byproduct; lactic acid fermentation, per Bio 0562, does not.