Ingredients for Brewing an English Mild 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'll be using in this recipe and how they are going to be building up into what we are looking for in this style. Light extract will provide a malty background. Crystal or caramel 40 is going to give us some nice color as well as some light caramel sweetness. Crystal or caramel 80 is going to provide a nice reddish color beer and give a slight caramely maybe even toffeeish like caramel character. Crystal or caramel 120 is going to add a lot of color to your beer. It's going to make it a nice, kind of nice, copper, even getting towards brownish color. It's going to have a very nice sweet, bitter sweet caramel flavor with a little bit of raisin and maybe even plum. Victory malt, also commonly known as biscuit malt, is going to contribute a nice, slightly toasted, bready, kind of biscuity flavor and is also going to give a nice amber color to the beer. Conventional chocolate malt or dark chocolate malt is going to provide a very nice, bittersweet chocolate flavor. A little harsher then the pale chocolate with a little more roast character and provide a nice deep ruby black color. Willamete is a derivative of the English Fuggle variety, which has a very nice mild and spicy, somewhat floral aroma, but provides a fair level of bitterness. East Kent Golding is a moderate alpha acid hop. It has some wonderful, noble aromas, which are kind of earthy somewhat floral, and it's going to provide some bitterness as well as some delicate flavors. We're going to use Irish Moss to help with our protein coagulation. Safale 04 is an English strain, which provides some fruity esters, but also foculate (which is "fall out of solution) very heavily. As a reminder, once again, we're going to go with our own tap water, but preferably we're going to have it chlorine filtered using a Britta filter."