Tea, Coffee, Wine and Yeast

Tea, Coffee, Wine and Yeast

Tea, coffee and wine are among the famous beverages spread across earth. Some people drink coffee for the taste, like me. Other than the taste, there is of course a strong effect in it. Coffee is known as a booster that helps you stay up on tiring nights. Well no wonder its common throughout the world, most useful things are.

Tea is often drunk in Britain and usually added with sugar and milk. Although tea didn’t originate from Britain, it certainly is common as a book to a scholar. Tea leaves originated from India, China and many other places beside Britain. It could be known as a foreign at the time. And because of many active trade routes across the seas and desert lands, it was possible that boxes full of tea could be shipped to places miles away.

Now wine here is something different. Tea and coffee have something in common. They are solutions that react with water to combine into a compound. Most of everything you see here reacts with water. That’s why water is so life friendly. And life is mainly a handful of exchanging reactions.

But wine is different from that. If you take grapes and dunk them into a bowl of water, nothing interesting happens. Unlike tea and coffee, where you can just grind them up and toss them into water. Chemical reactions will do the rest. Although grapes are what make wine, you can’t just simply dunk them into water.

You can in fact, make your own wine. Just don’t expect it to taste like the famous brands. Wine is simply just spoiled grapes. However, there is a little process that needs to be put into place in order that to happen. Grapes naturally don’t have any (if not tiny) amount of alcohol in them. So where on earth did that alcohol come from? Clearly something happened here because mass doesn’t just add up out of nowhere.

Alcohol is actually very useful for disinfecting, killing germs and stuff like that. If you dabbed a bit of alcohol on a wound or cut, the germs would die out. But it would also hurt like hell as it takes down some of your skin tissue while they’re at it. But even though it takes down germs like bacteria, it’s commonly more famous for getting people drunk. It does this by using up all the water in the brain. Your brain would be like a fish without water, so it reduces the active work that’s going around in your brain to make you less, aware of what’s happening. You get dumber, you start seeing things and you go unconscious and Bang! You’re in for a whamming headache in the morning.

So how does grape turn into wine? And where in the world does bread get it’s puffiness from? The magic all comes from a tiny little microorganism called yeast. You might’ve heard of it before cause they’re everywhere. They float in the air, just waiting for itself to find a good place to call home. Yeast feed on sugars so they’d like to find a place that has just that. Even so, they are quite sensitive and dislike cold or hot places.

Do you ever wonder why grapes had a whitish powder outside their skin? Well that’s yeast of course. You can either add the yeast manually, or just wait until the yeast settle in because they are abundant in the air. After a while they start to grow and multiply and soon alcohol starts to appear. It appears right after you put yeast in. Why does that happen? Well because the alcohol is their waste product.

They turn sugar into alcohol through a few chemical reactions. That’s how they work and that’s how they produce energy. Too much alcohol though, can end up killing the yeast itself.

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