Research Article

Potential Applicability of Cocoa Pulp (Theobroma cacao L) as an Adjunct for Beer Production

Table 7

Average values with standard deviation of volumetric productivity of ethanol by the commercial yeast for fermentation at 15°C and 22°C with the addition of cocoa pulp at the concentrations of 10%, 30%, and 49% to the malt wort after 96 h of fermentation.

Pulp concentration (%)Qp (g.L/h)
Yeast S-23Yeast S-04

00.43a ± 0.000.53a ± 0.00
100.47b ± 0.000.55b ± 0.00
300.48c ± 0.000.56c ± 0.00
490.47b ± 0.000.55b ± 0.00

Values marked with the same identification in the same column between the partial means do not differ significantly (), according to the Tukey test.