This should be a popular topic! Really good beer contains only 4 ingredients: water, barley, yeast and hops. The unique flavour of the beer will depend on the type of barley (and how roasted it is), the type of water and hops, strain of yeast and the temperature and length of fermentation. Real Ale is not pasteurised, but contains live yeast.

Beer can be made with other ingredients including rice, maize (corn) even raspberries and bananas!

Campaign for real ale (CAMRA) guide to making beer.

Vitual tour of budweiser budvar brewery in czech republic.

How they make the black stuff.

Here is the work that was done today. This should be completed and stuck in your book.

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Information & questions

Today we looked at chromatography – which separates colours in inks or paints. We used water as a solvent but sometimes ethanol or other solvents must be used if the chemical dyes are insoluble in water.

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