Hi, I'm Mark Emiley on behalf of Expert Village.
In this segment we are going to continue our
discussion of main ingredients to cover yeast,
water, and other adjuncts you may be adding.
Next, we have water which is actually what
most of beer is. Most tap water should be
fine for brewing extract brews. The one thing
I would recommend doing is use a Brita filter
or something to remove the chlorine. Otherwise,
you should be good to go. The next, final
main ingredient is going to be yeast. Now
there are a bunch of different strains of
beer yeast out there. There are dry forms,
there are liquid forms; some come in these
snack packs, some come in tubes. Today, since
we are going to be trying to do the most simple
form that we can, we are going to be working
off of dry yeast. In particular, I recommend
the Fermentis brand as they put out some great
strains. Some other things that we are going
to be adding to our beer later is Irish Moss,
which is actually a form of seaweed. This
is going to help clarify our beer. Sometimes,
you may actually add an adjunct which is a
non-malt extract of some sort. This in particular
is a rice extract. And the last major thing
we are going to be adding to our beer is dextrose
or priming sugar. And this will help our bottles
carbonate as they age. Thank you. In our next
segment, we'll talk about the equipment that
you are going to need to start brewing.
