If bacteria produce ethanol through fermentation, and ethanol can kill bacteria, why are they not killing themselves with their own ethanol?

Question

If bacteria produce ethanol through fermentation, and ethanol can kill bacteria, why are they not killing themselves with their own ethanol?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Actually fungus produces ethanol. This fungus is yeast. Mostly the yeast you can use is Saccharomyces Cerevisiae. That means the sugar lover of the beer in Latin.

The yeast does slowly murder itself with ethanol. That is why wine maxes out at 20% alchohol by volume if it’s not fortified.