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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 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
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 will talk
about the equipment that you are going to need to start brewing.