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Category: Grain

January 10, 2013

Some General Rules About Grains

by Yankeedag
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Was at the LHBS chatting with the Local… and we started talking about grains and what we could do with them…more for informational purposes than anything else. So, as a General Rule: Any “Cara” or “Crystal” grains are “steepable”.  So you don’t have to worry about a full blown Mash, just soak these in 150-ish water for at least 30 min.   Dark Grains… Steepable… they’ve already been converted as it were. So trying to mash these, well.. um.. nah. You can get the same stuff your gonna get by just steeping them. As far as the rest of the […]