alcohol make the person who takes it
want?

22. What is such a one called?

23. What has wine done to many persons?

24. What does alcohol hurt?

25. How does it change a person?

26. Are you sure you will not become a drunkard if
you drink wine?

27. Why should you not drink it?

28. What is cider made from?

29. What soon happens to apple-juice?

30. How may vinegar be made?

FOOTNOTE:

[Footnote A: This gas is called car bon'ic acid gas.]

CHAPTER V.

BEER.

[Illustration: A]LCOHOL is often made from grains as well as from fruit.
The grain has starch instead of sugar.

If the starch in your mother's starch-box at home should be changed into
sugar, you would think it a very strange thing.

Every year, in the spring-time, many thousand pounds of starch are
changed into sugar in a hidden, quiet way, so that most of us think
nothing about it.

STARCH AND SUGAR.

All kinds of grain are full of starch.

If you plant them in the ground, where they are kept moist and warm,
they begin to sprout and grow, to send little roots down into the earth,
and little stems up into the sunshine.

These little roots and stems must be fed with sugar; thus, in a wise
way, which is too wonderful for you to understand, as soon as the seed
begins to sprout, its starch begins to turn into sugar.

[Illustration]

If you should chew two grains of wheat, one before sprouting and one
after, you could tell by the taste that this is true.

Barley is a kind of grain from which the brewer makes beer.

He must first turn its starch into sugar, so he begins by sprouting his
grain.

Of course he does not plant it in the ground, because it would need to
be quickly dug up again.

He keeps it warm and moist in a place where he can watch it, and stop
the sprouting just in time to save the sugar, before it is used to feed
the root and stem. This sprouted grain is called malt.

The brewer soaks it in plenty of water, because the grain has not water
in itself, as the grape has.

He puts in some yeast to help start the work of changing the sugar into
gas[B] and alcohol.

Sometimes hops are also put in, to give it a bitter taste.

The brewer watches to see the bubbles of gas that tell, as plainly as
words could, that sugar is going and alcohol is coming.

When the work is finished, the barley has been ma