The ingredients that are needed to start this complicated process are malt from barley, water, hops, and yeast. These four simple ingredients are combined to make the popular beverage known as beer.
A well written article on the science of the ingredients in beer brewing and there reaction
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The first most basic homebrewing ingredient is malt. The most commonly used is barley malt. There are also other types of things such as corn and rice which can be added to the home brewed beer, but these are considered as adjuncts. Barley malt comes in two different types, 2-row malt and 6-row malt where 2-row malt has larger grains and less husk.
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Americans will buy an estimated 24 million cases of beer this holiday weekend, the biggest of the year for a $100 billion industry, according to The Beer Institute, a brewers’ trade group.
source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/04/earlyshow/living/main5132878.shtml
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