Choosing Yeast & Moss when Brewing Barley Wine

"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 extracted 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."