Ingredients For Home Brewing Amber Beer

"Hi, I'm Mark Emiley on behalf of Expert Village. In this next segment, we'll be covering some of the ingredients that we are going to be using in this recipe and how they are going to be building up into what we are looking for in this style. Now we are going to go into a little bit more detail about what each of these individual ingredients are adding into the beer. Light extract will provide a malty background. Munich Malt is going to contribute a nice amber color and a nice bready, malty flavor. Vienna malt will contribute a nice light and somewhat sweet flavor, but with a very nice hint of bread. Crystal, or Caramel 40 is going to give us some nice color as well as some nice caramel sweetness. Crystal, or Caramel 120 is going to add a lot of color to your beer. It's going to make it a nice copper, even getting towards brownish color. It's going to have a very nice sweet, bittersweet caramel flavor with a little bit of raisin and maybe even plumb. Pale Chocolate is going to add some nice not-quite-so-roasted chocolatey notes that will provide a little bit of grain toffeeness, but overall just a nice crisp, clean chocolate flavor. Centennial is a fairly high Alpha Acid hop which will provide a lot of bitterness. However, it can also provide some nice citrus and floral tones. Cascade is a classic American hop with a very nice citrus and floral aroma with just a little bit of grapefruit which is going to provide a moderate level of Alpha Acids. Simcoe is a very high Alpha Acid hop which will contribute a lot of bitterness, but has a very, very unique strong pine, almost candy-like aroma which will provide a great background for our beer. We're going to use Irish Moss to help with our protein coagulation. For yeast, the Fermentis Safale US-05 is going to provide a nice clean ferment that is capable of handling most alcohol levels. As a reminder, once again, we are going to go with our own tap water. But preferably, we are going to have it chlorine filtered using a Brita filter."