What is a Pale Ale Beer?

Series Summary

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 series of free instructional videos on brewing beer you'll learn how to home brew your own pale ale beer. Award winning expert brewer Mark Emiley shows you the beer brewing process in easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, from choosing malt, hops and yeast to bottling your batch of homebrew. You'll get tips on sanitizing your brewing equipment, measuring out the hops and other ingredients to get the perfectly balanced recipe for your pale ale beer. Bottle it, label it, and impress all your friends with your very own hand-crafted home brew beer.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mark Emily on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to teach you on everything you need to know about how to brew a pale ale. Today we'll be talking about everything you need to home brew this style which includes ingredients, the equipment of different process. You're going to need to take all of your basic ingredients and do the tasty beer. I've been a home brewer for 9 years and I've done over 140 different batches under my belt, I'm president of the wine and beer makers club. I even had some of my beers scaled up and produced commercial, there are many different ways to brew beers. Today we're going to be focusing on extract for specialty grains. Our focus we'll be doing on this simply as possible and with a least amount of equipment investment to start off. We'll recommend the basic equipment you'll need and if you want to give it a little more into it you'll appreciate it later. To start off I'm going to give you an overview to what to be inspecting during the whole brewing process. To begin you're going to start on the brewing day to day, you're going to seek the specialty ingredients if you have them and then you're going to add some multi abstract and then boil off that. Then you're going to add in your hops and then at the end of that when you're done boiling you're going to cool it down and add in your yeast. This usually takes between 2 or 3 hours, after the yeast has been added now it's beer and the yeast will start fermenting away for about 3 to 7 days. This is called your primary fermentation, once the yeast starts boiling down you're going to do your primary vessel into a secondary vessel, this operation is called racking. It takes about 30 minutes once you have your secondary vessel you're going to let it sit and finish it's remaining fermentation that has left and this will usually take 7 to 14 days. At this point mostly of your yeast has falling out of solution and your beer will be getting very very cold. Finally, you're going to go under bottling phase where you're going to siphon one more time into your bottling bucket, add in some priming sugar and then fill up your bottles and cap them off. Then you're going to put them into a nice dark area and let them sit for 2 or so weeks. At this point the beer will start carbonating itself and get that to a nice level and then you'll be able to drink your beer. Well this video will be enough to get started home brewing, I would like to recommend a couple more resources that you can use to develop your brewing skills. First, The American Home brewing Association puts out a beginners guide to home brewing, which you can pick up at your local store or request their website at www.beertime.org. Next we have a classic book called The Drive Home Brewing which is going to be everything you need to get started. People who want to get a little more advanced you can pick up, How to Brew by John Paul, which takes you through a little more in science. For some other good recipes out there for some beers that you make you want to reproduce there's home brews and home beer captured. "