Understand the role of yeast in the production of beer
Beer is mostly Ethanol (an alcohol molecule) which is produced from glucose.
Glucose -> Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide (anaerobic respiration)
The microorganism that does this is YEAST which supplies the enzymes to bring around this conversion
The Ethanol is flavoured by HOPS
The glucose comes from starch (converted into maltose (by amylase) -> glucose (by moltase)
The source of the starch is barly seeds/ wheat seeds (could include rice)
Starch broken down by AMYLASE through the germination of the seed called: 'malting'
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