Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences - Vol.4, No.1, April, Year 2008
Author: Nguyen Thi Hien, Nguyen Hoai Trang
Summary:
Many kinds of rice, cassava and sweet potatoes spirits produced by Traditional Fermentation Methods have been carried out for a long time in Vietnam. This study aimed to evaluate some traditional methods and find the way to improve the quality of sweet potatoes spirits and reduce the harmful by- products such as Aldehydes, Methanol, Esters, etc. by choosing the best traditional yeast cakes, fermentation conditions and duration of maturation of distilled Spirits following the Vietnamese standards for spirits with higher content of alcohol.
Keyword: Traditional spirit, processing, yeast cake.