TY - JOUR T1 - Description of Alcoholic Fermentation Kinetics: Its Variability and Significance JF - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture JO - Am J Enol Vitic. SP - 319 LP - 324 DO - 10.5344/ajev.1990.41.4.319 VL - 41 IS - 4 AU - M. Bely AU - J. M. Sablayrolles AU - P. Barre Y1 - 1990/01/01 UR - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/41/4/319.abstract N2 - In order to more precisely describe the kinetics of alcoholic fermentation and to show its considerable variability according to the musts, a study using an automatic device for monitoring fermentation was carried out; 45 musts were tested under isothermal standard conditions. The on-line measurement of the fermentation rate appeared to be particularly worthwhile because: (1) its maximum value, obtained early during the fermentation process, was well correlated with the fermentability of the musts; and (2) the trend of the rate curve was independent of temperature and was characteristic of the pair must-yeast strain. ER -