ferment
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"Any transport delay can risk ruining the batch. If it takes longer than 24 hours, the internal sugars begin to rot and ferment unpredictably, destroying the delicate flavour profile needed for premium spirits," says Dhariwal.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
With the help of large handheld food mixers, they carefully grind the mixture of dried Californian grapes and water, which they then ferment before distilling it in a large still imported from Germany.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
For that sugar to then ferment and produce alcohol, the person giving the sample would also need to have a yeast infection, she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
But although the intellectual ferment of Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries undergirds “Effingers,” Tergit’s heart lies with her characters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The simple discovery by Europe of the existence of the Americas caused an intellectual ferment.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Soon, this liquid ferments into a tangy beverage with a touch of viscosity, somewhat like Mexico’s pulque.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Kombucha is made when a SCOBY, a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, ferments sweetened tea.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Using an assembler in Germany, it takes grape juice, ferments it with bacteria which does not produce alcohol, and adds Chinese green tea to offer complexity and tannins.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Where many store-bought fermented foods are pasteurized to clear out all living microbes and then reinoculated with two to six specific bacterial species, our research showed that homemade ferments contain dozens of strains.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2024
Many are armed, and a bad feeling ferments in the pit of my stomach.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Raw and fermented milk is more widely drunk in rural areas.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
I washed the meal down with a cocktail made from pulque—the Aztec’s milky, sacred brew made from fermented agave sap—mixed with xoconostle, a tangy local cactus fruit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
It also established at least one clear boundary in American diplomacy: Rubio may travel the world on behalf of the president, but he won’t be doing it with a cooler full of fermented cabbage.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
On a sidewalk in a middle-class neighborhood of Colima city, the Bejarano family is selling tuba, a refreshing fermented drink made from the fresh, sweet sap of the coconut palm tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
It’s milk and blood that’s been fermented for days.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
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Other companies are scaling up processes for roasting or fermenting agricultural waste products, to make them good-enough substitutes for the primary ingredients in chocolate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
At his factory west of Tokyo, workers in hygienic uniforms wash, steam -- and lavishly spray bacteria on -- soybeans that machines then meticulously assemble in cups, before fermenting them for 18 hours.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Most nectar samples contained only trace amounts, likely produced by yeast fermenting sugars.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2026
That meant that urine samples with high sugar content could have started fermenting and consequently generated alcohol that could have skewed the test result or created a false positive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
The stench of fermenting fruit made him dizzy.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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