How does beer become alcoholic in the production process?

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How does beer become alcoholic in the production process?

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Answer 1

Yeast are little single-celled microorganisms that eat sugar and pee alcohol.

So you can add yeast to any liquid that has some sugars in it (like from grapes, grain, etc), and the yeast will eat the sugar and pee alcohol into the liquid they’re living in. Then you filter out the yeast at the end and you’ve got an alcoholic beverage.