fermenting

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He’s one of the last brewers to use an ancient method of fermenting in wooden vats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 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

Even so, this steady, low-level intake of ethanol implies that the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives among the apes, probably encountered alcohol every day from fermenting fruit.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

Rum is typically made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses, the thick treacle-like substance leftover after refined sugar has been produced from the harvested plants.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2025

Cartoons were still fermenting when sold, and because of the pressure, sometimes exploded in the hands of some careless drinker.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane