Yeast used in brewing beer.Most of them are different varieties of saccharomyces cerevisiae.E. c. ansen(1883) began to isolate and cultivate yeast and use it in brewing beer.The Carlsberg brewing institute in Denmark is famous for its yeast underbelly.Other famous beer yeasts include German Saaz type bottom yeasts and British and Japanese top yeasts.The cell morphology was the same as that of other cultured yeasts.Beer yeast is a typical top fermenting yeast used in beer production.In addition to beer, alcohol and other beverages for brewing wine, can also be fermented bread.It is high in vitamin and protein and can be used as food, medicine and feed yeast. It can also extract cytochrome C, nucleic acid, glutathione, coagulin, coenzyme A and adenosine triphosphate.In the microbiological determination of vitamins, beer yeast is often used to determine biotin, pantothenic acid, thiamine, pyridoxol and inositol, etc.
The colony of beer yeast on the AGAR medium of wort was milky white, shiny, flat and with neat edges.Asexual reproduction is dominated by budding.It can ferment glucose, maltose, galactose and sucrose, but not lactose and mellitose.
This kind of yeast is resistant to high osmotic pressure and high concentration of salt.
