NOVELTY - Method for simultaneous production of a fermented, solid product and ethanol, involves (a) providing a mixture of milled, flaked or otherwise disintegrated biomass, comprising oligosaccharides and/or polysaccharides and live yeast in a dry material ratio of 2:1-100:1 and water, (b) fermenting the mixture resulting from step (a) under condition where the water content in the initial mixture does not exceed 65 wt.%, for 1-36 hours at 25-60 degrees C under anaerobic conditions (c) incubating the fermented mixture resulting from step (b) for 0.5-240 minutes at 70-150 degrees C.    USE - The method is useful for simultaneous production of a fermented, solid product and ethanol. The fermented, solid product is used in a processed food product for human and/or animal consumption or as an ingredient to be used in a food or feed product or as an ingredient of a cosmetic or a pharmaceutical product or a nutritional supplement (claimed). The processed food products include dairy products, processed meat products, sweets, deserts, ice cream deserts, canned products, freeze dried meals, dressings, soups, bread and cakes, and the processed feed products comprise ready-to-use feed for animals. The pharmaceutical products containing biologically active ingredients are useful in the form of tablets or in granulated form, for curing diseases. The produced ethanol is useful as sustainable energy source or an alternative fuel for transportation.    ADVANTAGE - The ethanol production generates heat for the process e.g. by catalytic combustion and at the same time gets rid of polluting volatile organic compounds, e.g. hexane. The fermented product is highly nutritious and palatable. The method shortens the reaction time. The method simultaneously produces fermented solid products and ethanol, and since the usage of water content is low during process, the equipment investment is low and products are obtained at lower cost.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Method for simultaneous production of a fermented, solid product and ethanol, involves (a) providing a mixture of milled, flaked or otherwise disintegrated biomass, comprising oligosaccharides and/or polysaccharides and live yeast in a dry material ratio of 2:1-100:1 and water, (b) fermenting the mixture resulting from step (a) under condition where the water content in the initial mixture does not exceed 65 wt.%, for 1-36 hours at 25-60 degrees C under anaerobic conditions, (c) incubating the fermented mixture resulting from step (b) for 0.5-240 minutes at 70-150 degrees C and (d) separating wet fermented, solid product from the fermented mixture resulting from step (c) where the fermentation in step (b) is performed in one or more interconnected paddle worm or continuous worm conveyers with inlet unit for the fermentation mixture and additives and outlet unit for the ferment as well as control unit for rotation speed, temperature and pH, or one or more processing aids are added in any of steps (a), (b) and (c), and (e) separating crude ethanol from the fermented mixture in step (b) by vacuum and/or in step (c) by vacuum or by injection of steam and condensing the surplus stripping steam. INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are included for the following:    (1) crude ethanol obtained by the above-cited method, comprising small amounts of components resulting from the fermented biomass, e.g. 0.01-1% of other alcohols and ethers, including ethyl acetate, 3-methyl-1 -butanol and/or 2-methyl-1-butanol;    (2) fermented, solid product obtained by the above-cited method, comprising proteins, carbohydrates and optionally dietary fibers and/or salts resulting from the fermented biomass, where yeast protein is comprised in an amount of 1-95% based on dry material weight, and carbohydrate is comprised in an amount of 5-99% based on dry material weight; and    (3) food, feed, cosmetic or pharmaceutical product, or nutritional supplement containing 1-99 wt.% of the fermented, solid product.