What is gin made of?
Gin takes wheat, baker's yeast, juniper berries, ethanol and water directly. Trace them back and you pass 6 made things on the way to 8 raw materials.
How gin is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 8 raw materials
- Wheat goes straight in
- Juniper berries goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Corn through ethanol
- Sugarcane through ethanol
- Sugar beet through baker's yeast, molasses
- Natural gas through ethanol, ethylene
- Crude oil through ethanol, ethylene, naphtha
Made along the way: 4 things
Chemicals and fuels 3
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.