What is beer made of?
Beer takes 8 things directly, among them barley, water, corn, rice, malted barley and hops. Trace them back and you pass 4 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
How beer is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Barley goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Corn goes straight in
- Rice goes straight in
- Hops goes straight in
- Natural gas through carbon dioxide
- Limestone through carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 1 thing
Food 1
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.