Home Brew Amber Beer Upgraded Equipment

"Hi I'm Mark, on behalf of Expert Village. In this next segment, we'll be covering some of the more advanced or optional equipment that you could be getting. Now if you're willing to spend a little bit more money up front, for some benefits in the long run, here are some of the pieces of equipment that you're going to want to grab. You're going to want to get a carboy. In particular, you're going to want to get at least a five gallon size one and then possible a six and a seven and a half gallon size one. They are better for the fermentation as they don't scratch as easily as plastic and they'll last pretty much for forever. Along with that you can grab a carboy handle which makes it easy to pick up when it's empty. Don't use it when it's full. You could also get a thermal strip which will help tell you the fermentation temperature. For this, you're also going to need another stopper and an airlock that is appropriately sized for this. If you do grab a carboy, make sure you grab a funnel so that you can pour your wort in nice and easily. This is a hydrometer, it will help you figure out how much sugar and eventually how much alcohol is in your beer. It's a very hand tool. You're going to want a nice thermometer so you can measure the temperature during different parts of your process. This is a carboy cleaning brush which allows you to get inside there and clean up some of the scum that will form. This is a bottle washer which you can attach to the bottom of our faucet with this special little adapter and it will make your bottle washing a lot easier. And finally, for holding grains and hops, we have some different sized nylon grain bags that you can be using. Some, this one would be better for a bunch of grains. This one you could do a lot of leaf hops in or a small amount of grains. And this very, very fine one you can actually do pellet hops in. In the next segment, we are going to talk about all the different kind of beer styles that there are."