International audienceThis article presents a model of beer fermentation in terms of flavor component content. It describes the production of two higher alcohols (isoamyl alcohol and phenyl ethanol) and three esters (isoamyl acetate, ethyl acetate, and ethyl hexanoate) selected according to their organolep-tic threshold values in beer, as well as the effects of operating conditions on their formation. A step-by-step modeling approach was used, which exploited prior biological information coupled with analysis of experimental data. These data resulted from a two-level full-factorial experimental design for three factors: temperature (10–16°C), top pressure (50– 800 mbar), and yeast inoculum (0.5 × 10 7 –2 × 10 7 cells per milliliter). Experi...