Beer and Beer Links

Introduction to Beer

• The average person can eliminate 0.5 oz (15 ml) of alcohol per hour. So, it would take approximately one hour to eliminate the alcohol from a 12 oz (355 ml) can of beer.

What is beer?

What is Alcohol?

• HowStuffWorks-Alcohol

How do you make beer?

• The making of Beer

How do breathalyzers work?

• HowStuffWorks

Home Made Beer

Want to make your own beer?

• HowStuffWorks-Making Beer
• What you need?

• The 4 ingredients:

• Malted Barley
• Hops
• Yeast
• Water

• Other Products:

• Fermentation vessels (a bucket or glass water jug)
• Various hoses for siphoning beer from one container to another or to fill bottles
• An airlock so that carbon dioxide can escape the fermentation vessel but air cannot get in
• Some cleaning equipment for washing your fermenters, bottles and hoses
• Floating thermometer
• Floating hydrometer
• Bottle capper
• Funnel