This makes what is called _malt_. The
malt is mashed and soaked in warm water to get the sugar out of it; this
forms a liquid called _sweet wort_. The wort is separated from the mashed
grain and boiled; yeast is mixed with it to help it to ferment more
quickly; it soon becomes changed; a dirty yellow scum filled with bubbles
comes to the top, which we know is the poisonous carbonic acid gas; the
other poison, alcohol, stays in the liquid and makes the beer taste good to
those who like it.
Liquors made from grain are called _malt liquors_. Lager beer, and all
kinds of ales and porters, are malt liquors. They make people dull,
sluggish, and stupid who drink much of them. They do much mischief in the
body, though it takes a larger quantity of any one of them to make a person
drunk than it does of whiskey or brandy.
AN ATOM OF
GRAPE SUGAR. CARBONIC ACID GAS. ALCOHOL.
Carbon, 6 atoms. Carbon, 1 atom. Carbon, 2 atoms.
Oxygen, 6 atoms. Oxygen, 2 atoms. Oxygen, 1 atom.
Hydrogen, 12 atoms. Hydrogen, 6 atoms.
SUB-FERMENTED GRAPE SUGAR MAKES 2 atoms of carbonic acid gas and 2 atoms of
alcohol.
ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS
MADE FROM
FRUITS.
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