The text boxes below have been placed in a random order. Reorder the paragraphs.

(A) At that time, brewing was a household industry, carried on basically by farmers and tavern keepers.

(B) Producers then mixed the final end product, called malt, with water and boiled it to form what brewers called the wort.

(C) The earliest settlers brought fermented beverages from England with them to America.

(D) They then added hops to the boiling liquid to give it a pleasantly bitter taste and a distinctive aroma, before serving it to their guests.

(E) The early process of brewing started by heating and soaking barley to force germination.