MrWhleDr

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Quick question: during steeping of specialty grains how can I read the amount converted? Can I take a gravity reading before adding extract? Steeping is really for color and flavor, correct? I cant help but want to know how much steeping really affects the final product. Searching the forum is sometimes difficult. Thanks for replies. Cheers to beers.

homebrewer_99

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I think I remember steeping as yielding 40% efficiency...but I've been drinking all night and well, you know...

(Actually, with all my drucken experience I can probably function better this way than most people can...not this way...). Even my bowling score improve after a couple Kamekazi's...the secret is you mutiply the scores instead of adding them...

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mr jones

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if you are trying to hit a target OG you can take the gravity after steeping your grains and then adding extract as necessary. i am reading designing great beers by ray daniels and it has a lot of equations for you to hone your beers to exactly the specifications you want. I have spent all morning calculating the total gravities and malt bills for the beers that we brew at work.

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Rogue Crow Brewery

Primary 1 (chino)- carmel vanilla cream ale
Primary 2 (adam)- nothing
primary 3 (billy)- nothing
Secondary 1 (perry)- nothing
Secondary 2 (waymon)- nothing
Bottled- Freetail Ale 1.crow, prematura premavera (saison), Monticello House Ale
On Deck- blonde ale (fruit experiment)

SumnerH

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40% is a reasonable guess, then you can correct with DME as needed if you had huge amounts of specialty grains and were far off of that mark.

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Secondary: Oude Bruin, Red Sky at Morning (Sour brown ale)
On tap: Saison Duphunk (sour), Amarillo Slim (IPA), Earl White (ginger/bergamot wit)
Bottled: Number 8 (Belgian Strong Dark Ale), Eternale (Barleywine), Ancho Villa (Ancho/pasilla/chocolate/cinnamon RIS), Oak smoked porter (1/2 maple bourbon oaked, 1/2 apple brandy oaked)