Alcoholic fermentation of papaya juice was carried out for 5 day at a temperature range of 15-30ºC. The maximum ethanol production was recorded at a temperature range of 25-30ºC. Comparatively, ethanol production was lesser at 20ºC than at other temperature tried. Therefore, a temperature of 26ºC been selected for further studies (Table 1, figure 5). The temperature optimization studies the initial temperature 25-30C given maximum ethanol production. The maximum ethanol production from kinnow juice has been reported at 30ºC. However, technology of low temperature (13-16ºC) and log fermentation time has been used for making of litchi wine Zeng et al (2008). It has been reported that when the fermentation temperature is between 1015ºC, most of the main aromatic compounds that endow the products with wine character can be preserved Wondra and Berovic, (2001).