fermenting

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Now, 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

"These things are not coming out of nowhere. They are forces in American politics that have been underground for a while, but have been just kind of fermenting."

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

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

As Blackley says, much of the literature about raising cacao trees and then fermenting cacao is geared toward doing so in outdoor tropical climates.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

Techniques were developed in eastern Australia for rendering abundant and starchy, but extremely poisonous, cycad seeds edible, by leaching out or fermenting the poison.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond