Chemistry of Beer

Out of the Blue? Chemistry of Beer Annually, college students spend $5.5 billion on alcohol, mostly beer. This averages to $466 per year! As youth continue to spend insane sums of money on alcohol, the irony of it is that most young people do not know the least about the properties of alcohol. Beer, the most commonly consumed alcoholic beverage of minors [including young chemists]. Now this writer asks, with all this beer being consumed has the …

…all elements of chemistry. Moreover, the chemistry of yeast is constantly in motion with glycolysis, and ethanol reactions. With all this chemistry working around an at first glance simple brew, it is apparent that there is a great deal of chemistry involved when making beer. The University of Connecticut stats show that underage drinking costs our society $53 billion (American) dollars each year. That's enough to buy every U.S. public school student a state-of-the-art computer.