Alcoholic Beverages and Vinegar
Beer and ale are fermented starch
Malting: Germinating barley converts starch to maltose and glucose
For sake, rice starch is converted to sugar by Aspergillus
Wine is fermented plant sugars
Yeast ferment sugars to ethanol + CO2
Grape wine requires bacterial malolactic fermentation
Acetobacter and Gluconobacter convert ethanol to acetic acid