Pasteurization
Pasteurization, The process of heating then cooling liquids once sufficient time has passed, in order to eliminate the microbes already present inside. Not only preserving the liquids, but allowing it to be safe for consumption, which was a really big deal back then.
The beginning
Invented in 1864, by no other than Louis Pasteur himself at the age of 42. The Pasteurization process, named after "Pasteur". Tremendously impacted the world in a positive light, as this allowed for many manufacturers of liquids such as juice or milk. To not only make their drink products safe for consumers and consumption. But ensure they wouldn't go bad off the bat after production, which had troubled France and the world in the past!
Alcoholic Beverages & Fermentation
Although today pasteurization is known to be used for liquids such as milk, the events and studies that led to the Pasteurization process all started with beer or more specifically Beet juice! This all started in the years of 1854...
Aged just 32, he became Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Lille. At this time, Lille was the centre of alcohol manufacture in France. IN 1856,Pasteur received a visit from a man called Bigo who worked at a factory that made alcohol from sugar beet. Bigo’s problem was that many of his vats of fermented beer were turning sour and, as a result, the beer had gone off and had to be thrown away. From a business point of view, this was a disaster. Bigo asked Pasteur to find out why this was happening.
After using a microscope to analyse samples from the vats, Pasteur found thousands of tiny micro-organisms. He became convinced that they were responsible for the beer going sour. Pasteur believed that they caused the putrefaction of the beer – not that they were the result of the putrefaction (From: the history learning site.com C N Trueman 2015).
This discovery not only furthered his assumptions and belief in the Germ Theory at the time, but it sparked an Idea. The idea that he could devise a process that could eliminate these "microorganisms" inside these liquids. Eventually in 1856, Louis Pasteur did exactly that, when he discovered that heating certain liquids to certain temperatures. Will actually eliminate or reduce the amount of harmful organisms inside,
After using a microscope to analyse samples from the vats, Pasteur found thousands of tiny micro-organisms. He became convinced that they were responsible for the beer going sour. Pasteur believed that they caused the putrefaction of the beer – not that they were the result of the putrefaction (From: the history learning site.com C N Trueman 2015).
This discovery not only furthered his assumptions and belief in the Germ Theory at the time, but it sparked an Idea. The idea that he could devise a process that could eliminate these "microorganisms" inside these liquids. Eventually in 1856, Louis Pasteur did exactly that, when he discovered that heating certain liquids to certain temperatures. Will actually eliminate or reduce the amount of harmful organisms inside,