Using Water, Yeast, & Irish Moss for Home Brewing Cream Ale

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mark 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 that you may be adding. Next, we have water, which is actually what most of your beer is. Most tap water should be fine for brewing extract brews. The one thing I would recommend doing is to use a Brita filter or something to remove the chlorine. Otherwise, you should be good to go. The final major 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 trying to do the most simple version that we can, we're 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 which is going to help clarify our beer. Sometimes you may actually add an adjunct which is a non-malt extract of some sort. This one in particular is a rice extract. And the last 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 will talk about the equipment that you are going to need to start brewing. "