Out of the Blue? Chemistry of Beer
Annually, college students spend $5.5 billion on alcohol, mostly beer. This averages to $466 per year! As youth continue to spend insane sums of money on alcohol, the irony of it is that most young people do not know the least about the properties of alcohol. Beer, the most commonly consumed alcoholic beverage of minors [including young chemists]. Now this writer asks, with all this beer being consumed has the initiative ever been taken to enlighten others on the chemistry behind this enjoyed yet [stresses] dangerous intoxicant? Beer consists of three…
