Beer Ingredients

Beer is essentially four basic ingredients: water, malt, yeast and hops that are boiled, cooled and stored to ferment.

• Beer Is Mostly Water
  Water might be the most varied chemical compound on the planet. Plain old H2O is the same anywhere, of course. But brewing with pure water is not only expensive, but leads to poor beer - flat, stale...
  
  
• Yeast: Fermenting Beer
  Beer - Yeast Yeasts are living organisms, a uni-cellular fungus, and have a rare ability: to live with or without oxygen. In the presence of air, they multiply. In the absence of oxygen, they ferment...
  
  
• Barley Malt: Beer's Basic Ingredient
  Sometimes a problem is cleverly turned into an advantage. The world is indeed fortunate that barley is good for little more than making beer. But for that, it is excellently suited. Barley is a...
  
  
• Hops: Clever Use For a Useless Plant
  Beer is essentially four basic ingredients: water, malt, yeast and hops that are boiled, cooled and stored to ferment. The last, hops, are the flowering cone of a viney plant related to cannabis. But...