Ingredients For Home Brewing Scottish Beer

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mark Emiley on behalf of Expert Village, and in this next segment, we will be covering some of the ingredients we will 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 more detail about what each of these individual ingredients are adding to the beer. Light extracts will provide a malty background. Munich malts are going to contribute a nice amber color and a nice bready, malty flavor. Crystal, or caramel forty is going to give us some nice color as well as some light caramel sweetness. Crystal or caramel one twenty is going to add a lot of color to your beer. It is going to make it a nice kind of copper, it is going to give you a much browner color. It is going to have a very nice, sweet, bittersweet caramel flavor with a little bit of raisin or maybe even plum. Pale chocolate is going to add some nice, not quite so roasted chocolatey notes that will provide a little bit of runny toffeeness, but overall a nice, crisp, clean chocolate flavor. East Kent Golding is a moderate alpha acid hop, which has wonderful noble aromas which are kind of earthy, somewhat floral and is going to provide some bitterness as well as some delicate flavors. We are going to use Irish moss to help with our approaching coagulation. Zephalos four is an English strain which provides some fruity esthers but also flocculate, which is follic solution, very heavily. 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."