Saccharification : Saccharification is a biochemical process which consists of transforming sugars complex, such as cellulose (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the starch, into simpler sugars, such as fructose and glucose. This is usually an enzymatic process.
e may be present in the base product, as in the case of malt, produced by yeast or others champignons microscopic, or brought directly to trigger the reaction.
In a brewery, it’s a autolysis, consisting of the transformation of sugars from malt inwater heated in order to activate enzymes, mainlyamylase.