NATURE OF FERMENTED DRINKS 



Some kinds of beer contain only a small percentage of 

 alcohol, but these are often taken in such large quantities 

 that the user gets as much alcohol as he would in smaller 

 amounts of stronger drinks. 



131. The Food Value of Beer. The drinking of beer 

 does not give strength for work, but on the other hand 

 tends to make people dull, heavy, stupid, and unfit for hard 

 and continued manual or mental labor. Because both beer 

 and bread are ^ often made from the same cereals, the 

 former has been called "liquid bread." 



There is a popular saying that " where the brewery is, 

 no bakery is needed." As a matter of fact, chemists 

 tell us that the best beer is more than nine tenths water, 

 from four to five per cent alcohol, and that scarcely two 

 per cent is really food. A healthy grown person would 

 have to drink about 

 two gallons of beer 

 every day to get 

 the same amount of 

 nutriment he would 

 get from a few slices 

 of bread. The 

 harmful effect of FIG. 61. 

 drinking this large 

 amount of beer 

 daily would quickly 

 show itself. 1 The 

 food value of a glass 

 or two of beer is of so little importance that it is scarcely 

 worthy of mention. 



Growing Yeast Cells, showing Method 

 of budding and forming Groups of Cells. 



Each bud appears as a little swelling on the side of the 

 larger cell, as seen in a and b. In c the little bud 

 has grown to be nearly as large as the parent cell. 

 The little buds grow one after another, making 

 irregular shaped groups, as shown in d. 



1 The constant use of beer every day gives the system no recuperation, 

 but steadily lowers the vital forces. Scientific American. 



