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Quotes About Fermentation

licorice is used with some frequency in dark beers to increase head, as a coloring agent, and to sweeten the end product (see Hops listing below).
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
I usually bring along a bottle of kombucha, thinking, 'This will be really good for me.' But I never actually drink it. The fermented mushroom-y flavor is too intense for me.
~ Lena Headey
I've been amazed to learn all of the links between microbial health and our general health. This all started by trying to understand fermentation. The fermentation outside your body, and its relation to the fermentation inside your body. The key to health is fermentation, it turns out.
~ Michael Pollan
I made wine out of raisins so I would not have to wait for it to age.
~ Steven Wright
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
concluded that the amount of heat exposure needed to kill off the wild yeast in honey is as little as five minutes at 150 F (66° C), or about 22 minutes at 140 F (60° C). I recommend the lower and slower approach.
~ Ken Schramm
All love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until ?tis fine; But when ?tis settled on the lee, And from th? impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder.
~ Butler
Mitsuru and Yuriko and Kazue didn't mutate; they simply decayed. A biology professor certainly ought to be able to recognize the signs of fermentation and decay. Isn't he the one who taught us all about these processes in organisms? In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Widzialny wÅ'adca widzialnej natury (Mam na myÅ›li czÅ'owieka) zapragnÄ…Å' oto stworzy? sobie Raj za pomocÄ… Å›rodków farmaceutycznych i napojów poddawanych fermentacji, podobny w tym maniakowi, który zastÄ…piÅ' solidne meble i prawdziwe ogrody dekoracjÄ… wymalowanÄ… na pÅ'ótnie i rozpiÄ™tÄ… na blejtramach.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The uncle ignored Gracie's father. 'In any event,' he went on, 'when brewers combine hops with yeast and grain and water, and allow the mixture to ferment -- to rot -- it magically produces an elixir so gassy with blue-collar cheer, so regal with glints of gold, so titillating with potential mischief, so triumphantly refreshing, that it seizes the soul and thrusts it toward that ethereal plateau where, to paraphrase Baudelaire, all human whimsies float and merge.
~ Tom Robbins
If my belief in the God-force-principle-thing had faltered from time to time, it was completely reaffirmed that morning when I considered how completely brilliant a creation was fermentation. From decay came a pleasure sublime enough to keep decay at bay. Only for a few minutes, perhaps, but some minutes are like no others.
~ Tony Hendra
I was not wholly irreverent. I honored all gods who professed an interest in human folk, and I respected custom and rituals that evoked the great mysteries of the world: death and birth, forests, ocean, and storms, music, copulation, and fermentation.
~ Carol Berg
Gerald M. Lemole
~ Fermented soy
Beer is made by men, wine by God.
~ Martin Luther
A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.
~ Jeremy Collier
Buchner proposed that fermentation was carried out by biological catalysts that he named enzymes (from the Greek en zyme, meaning in yeast). He concluded that living cells are chemical factories, in which enzymes manufacture the various products.
~ Nick Lane
For us in Asia, fermented, bubbly, creamy things are just the norm.
~ Roy Choi
Slang, too, is the wholesome fermentation or eructation of those processes eternally active in language, by which froth and specks are thrown up, mostly to pass away; though occasionally to settle and permanently chrystallize.
~ Walt Whitman
When the fermentation is over and the troubling parts subsided, the wine will be fine and good, and cheer the hearts of those that drink it."41 Franklin was wrong, sadly wrong, about the French Revolution, though he would not live long enough to learn it. Le Veillard would soon lose his life to the guillotine. So would Lavoisier the chemist, who had worked with him on the Mesmer investigation. Condorcet, the economist who had accompanied
~ Walter Isaacson
the holiness that ferments the galaxies is working in you, in me, and in everyone.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
To taste its best, wine, especially red wine, must be uncorked and exposed to the air for a period of time before it is drunk.
~ Cheryl Mendelson
I don't think a lot of Korean people even make kimchi. My mom certainly didn't, so it's a very extra thing to do in the same way that I guess baking bread can be an even longer process that you're unsure about for a long time.
~ Michelle Zauner
What magic there is in a girl's smile! It is the raisin which, dropped in the yeast of male complacency, induces fermentation.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
~ Abigail Van Buren