Question

What is the purpose of sugar in the fermentation process?

Answer 1

help speed up the process if the amount of sugar added makes up to 8% of the ingredients present, more then that and it will begin to suffocate yeast and slow down the fermentation process

Answer 2

Sugar is the substrate or starting product for the fermentation process. It gets broken down into alcohol by growing the yeast cells in a sugar solution under anaerobic (without air) conditions.