1. Filtration-When I get home I am going to be syphoning the beer out of the current fermentation bucket into another bucket. This transfers all the beer and leaves behind most of the sediment. If I was really going for some real clear beer I would let it sit and settle for a little while longer so even the smaller sediment falls to the bottom of the second bucket (this would be considered the "Conditioning" step for a home-brewer).
2. Carbonation-Then I add some priming sugar to carbonate the beer. If you don't know how this works it is pretty simple. Yeast are living organisms that are put into beer and they consume all the sugars and they turn it into carbon dioxide and alcohol. In a sense, they eat sugar and poop CO2 and alcohol.
3. Bottling- Next, I syphon the beer into bottles and cap all the bottles. I throw them back into the cabinet for a few days while the yeast do their job to carbonate the beer. Once that is done, they go into the fridge to chill...next thing you know, we have nice cold, alcoholic, carbonated beer.
4. Drink- Even if you don't make your own beer, I'm pretty sure you can handle this step.
Cheers!
P.S.- This is kind of what my English Brown Ale will look like...
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