ZHANG Xia, LEI Xuejun, LIU Fang, LIU Duotao, LUO Qingchun, SHI Si, QIAO Zongwei, ZHENG Jia
In order to investigate the characteristics of yeast species and metabolites in the workshops air of Wuliangye, a total of 73 yeasts were isolated, which belonged to 11 genera and 14 species including Wickerhamiella pararugosa (Y1), Pichia kudriavzevii (Y2), Pichia exigua (Y3), Candida ethanolica (Y4), Kazachstania bulderi (Y5), Saccharomyces unisporus (Y6), Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Y7), Naumovozyma castellii (Y8), Meyerozyma caribbica (Y9), Debaryomyces hansenii (Y10), Zygosaccharomyces bailii (Y11), Clavispora lusitaniae (Y12), Debaryomyces subglobosus (Y13) and Saccharomycopsis fibuligera (Y14). The content of flavor compounds in the liquid fermentation broth were determined by the headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The results showed that the14 yeast strains could produce various flavor compounds, and most of them were esters and alcohols. Main compounds included ethyl acetate, ethyl hexanoate, phenethyl alcohol, isoamyl alcohol, isovaleric acid, butyl butyrate, ethyl octanoate, ethyl nonanoate, phenol, and acetoin. High content of total ester was detected in Y1, Y2 and Y5 with the value more than 65 mg/L, and the highest was detected in Y1 (95 mg/L). High content of total alcohol was detected in Y1, Y5, Y7, Y8 and Y10 with the value more than 60 mg/L, and Y7 had the highest value (115 mg/L). The content of trace flavor compounds was low, but the variety was rich which might contribute to the liquor flavor. Y5 had high content of acetoin at 1.57 mg/L. High content of phenol were detected in Y1 and Y7 with the concentration of 2.26 and 2.43 mg/L, respectively. This research provides a certain theoretical basis for the flavor of Wuliangye.