Unit plan: Making fermented drinks
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Students carry out experiments with yeast and market research to help them modify an existing recipe for a fermented drink (such as ginger beer) to produce a drink that would appeal to their school or community.
To investigate traditional fermented drinks in order to understand how the fermentation process occurs and how new drinks based on the traditional recipes can be developed.
Fermented drinks, fermentation, nature of technology, consumer testing.
- 26 November 2007