14 DAY TRIAL // Unless you've never ever - not even by mistake - set foot in a bar or even a supermarket, you might have noticed that we have a heck lot of beers to pick and choose from these days. We're talking hundreds, quite possibly even thousands.
Well, if there's one thing that deserves our praises for giving us the gift of beer diversity, it's chemistry. True, the guys and gals working in breweries all around the world are also to thank, but let's face it, it's chemistry that does the heavy lifting.
As explained in the video below, all beer, regardless of how cheap or expensive they might be by the time they reach us, are made by extracting sugars from grains and letting yeast turn them into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Pretty basic stuff, right?
Apart from the chemical profile of the ingredients used by one brewery or another, what influences the taste of beer is the temperature it is exposed to during the brewing process. Thus, differences in temperature can make beer made with the same ingredients taste very different from one another.
Around this time of the year, when folks in Ireland celebrate St. Patrick's Day, odd-looking green beer makes an appearance in this corner of the world. This type of beer, insanely popular during said celebration, is made with dyes typically extracted from plants.
