Beer is like a special juice that adults drink. It’s made from four main ingredients: water, barley, hops, and yeast. Think of barley as a kind of grain, like the ones used to make your breakfast cereal. When barley is soaked in water, it starts to sprout, and that’s called malting. Hops are like tiny green flowers that add a bit of bitterness and a nice smell to the juice.
Imagine you’re baking cookies. You mix flour, sugar, and eggs to make dough. In beer, yeast is like a little helper that eats the sugar from the malted barley and turns it into bubbles and a tiny bit of something called alcohol. That’s why beer is fizzy and why only grown-ups drink it.
Beer comes in different colors and flavors, just like ice cream. Some are light and sweet like vanilla, while others are dark and rich like chocolate. Each beer has its own taste because brewers, the people who make beer, use different recipes, just like how you can make cookies with chocolate chips or raisins.