METHOD OF PRODUCING ACTIVE DRY YEAST

摘要

It is intended to provide a novel technique of drying a brewery yeast and a process for producing liquors by using the same. Namely, it is intended to provide a method of producing a dry yeast which exerts an adequate fermentation ability when directly used in fermentation without resort to prepropagation and gives a favorable flavor, and a process for producing liquors by using the same. A method which comprises allowing a yeast having been collected from a brewery process to intake a stabilizer such as trehalose, further allowing it to intake glycerol, if desired, to thereby lower the moisture activity in the yeast cells, and then dehydrating and drying the yeast while maintaining a high survival ratio and fermentation ability thereof; and liquors produced by using the yeast.