How To Home Brew Amber Beer

Beer! The world's oldest and most popular alcoholic beverage. A favorite of large German men, and young college frat parties, beer is a drink that is appropriate for any occasion. Commonly made from malted barley and hops, beer dates back to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In fact, the invention of bread and beer have been credited with humanity's ability to develop and build civilization, especially in locations where the alcohol in beer purified unsafe water supplies. Today there are a variety of beer styles, though the majority of beer falls into three categories based on the behavior of yeast in the fermentation process, these are ales, lagers, and lambic beers. Whatever your favorite style or brand of beer, brewing and drinking beer has gained popularity in recent years and in some circles, beer tasting and brewery tours have become just as popular and fun as wine tasting at vineyards.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how to home brew your own amber beer. You will learn about the ingredients and supplies required for home brewing beer, as well as step-by-step instructions on the beer brewing process. Learn how to prepare and boil your malt, hops and special grains for amber beer, and how to ferment and siphon the beer. If you've ever wanted to home brew beer, this video will give you all the information you will ever need to come up with your own amber beer.

"Hi. I'm Mark on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to teach you everything you need to know about how to brew your own amber beer. Today we'll be talking about everything you need to home brew this style, which includes the ingredients, the equipment and the different processes you're going to need to take all of your basic ingredients and convert them into tasty beer. I've been a homebrewer for about nine years. I've got about 140 different batches under my belt. I'm the president of the Boeing Employees Line of Beer Makers Club. I've even had some of my beers scaled up and produced commercially. There are many different ways to brew beers. Today we're going to be focusing on extract with specialty grades. Our focus will be on doing this as simply as possible with the least amount of equipment investment to start off. We'll recommend the basic equipment that you need and also some equipment that if you want to get a little more into it, you'll appreciate it later. To start off, I'm going to give you an overview of what you'll be expecting during the whole brewing process. To begin, you're going to start on the brewing day. On this day you're going to steep some specialty grains, if you have them, then you're going to add some malt extract and boil all that, add in your hopps, and at the end of that, when you're done boiling, you're going to cool it down and add in your yeast. And this usually takes between to to three hours. After the yeast have been added, your wort is now beer, and the yeast will start ferminting away for about three to seven days, and this is called your primary fermintation. Once the yeast starts slowing down you're going to siphon out of your primary vessel into a secondary vessel. This operation is called racking, and it takes roughly thirty minutes. Once you're in your secondary vessel you're going to let it sit and finish its remaining fermintation that it has left, and this will take usually seven to fourteen days. At this point, most of your yeast will have fallen out of solution and your beer will be getting very, very clear. Finally you're going to go into the bottling phase, where you're going to siphon one more time into your bottling bucket, add some priming suger, fill up your bottles and cap them off. And then you're going to put them into a nice, dark area and let them sit for two or so weeks. At this point the beer will start carbonating itself, get up to a nice level, and then you'll be able to chill, and drink your beer. Well this video will be enough to get you started home brewing, I'd like to recommend a couple other resources that you can use to develope your brewing skills. First, the American Home Brewers Association puts out a beginner's guide to home brewing, which you can pick up at your local store or request at their website at www.beertown.org. Next we have a classic book called The Joy of Home Brewing which is going to be everything you really need to get started. For people who want to get a little more advanced, you can pick up How to Brew by John Palmer, which takes you through a little more of the science. And for some other good recipes out there for some beers that you may have already tried and want to reproduce, there's Clone Brews and Beer Captured."