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This is the next segment on brewing. I¡¯m JB with Austin Home Brew Supply. Our equipment kit has everything you need except for the stockpot and bottles. Those things are¡­I¡¯m just going to go down one by one¡­The plastic primary fermenter, it¡¯s a plastic bucket is all it is, but it¡¯s food grade plastic. What you do want to do with this is pre-measure it. You want to measure out five gallons of water and put a line across it, and then one more gallon and put another line across it. You¡¯ll know where your five gallon mark is and your six gallon mark. This here is called an airlock. The airlock, you would fill about a third full of water. This will allow CO2 gas to escape but it won¡¯t allow anything else to get into the bucket and contaminate the beer. The other things we have are the auto-siphon. The auto-siphon is a siphon starter. It will attach to the siphon hose. The siphon hose will come off the front of the auto-siphon, and you¡¯ll pump it a couple of times and it gets your siphon going for you. This is the stuff you need to move it from point A to point B. The next thing is a bottle filler. It has got a spring loaded tip on it. The bottle filler, used on bottling day in order to fill the bottles from the bottom up. When you depress it, it fills the bottle. It starts from the bottom, pushing the air out of the top because the air is bad once we are going into the bottle. A couple other things are the sanitizing agent, which we use a little bit earlier for sanitizing my wort chiller, as we speak. Also, a grain bag for keeping the grains in the very first step of the process. There is also a couple of different guides that we have. This is the one that I really like, it¡¯s a beginner¡¯s guide to home brewing. This is from Brew Around magazine. It¡¯ll tell you everything you need to know; breaks it all down, item by item what you need to know. The other cool kicker about this one is if you flip it over it will tell you about wine making too, but that it really goes into good depth about home brewing. There is your guide. A couple of test instruments. One of them is the thermometer itself. We have discussed a little bit earlier, but this is a floating thermometer, it comes with a system. This is a hydrometer. Hydrometer will check the specific gravity, which basically is a density of a liquid versus water. The specific gravity is going to enable us to know what¡¯s going on with the yeast process. When the yeast begins to eat the sugar, they¡¯re going to decrease the specific gravity, so this instrument will enable us to know what¡¯s happening with the fermentation process. A few more things, after you fill your bottle with your bottle filler, you need to put a cap on them. It comes with caps and this is a capper, it actually puts it right onto the bottle. A spoon comes with this system; I¡¯ve been using it earlier. Your carboy and your carboy stopper. That¡¯s the equipment and that wraps up this segment.