Now I know that mashing is getting water to the right temp and then putting the grain in and then catalysts get to work and convert starch in the grain to sugar. Then you sparge to make sure that all of the sugar gets out. Seeping on the other hand is making a kind of a tea out of a bit of grain so that you get a bit more flavor in the beer.
What I don't understand is why when having a bit of grain in a muslin seeping bag you can't get the starch to convert to sugars as well (kind of a micro mash). It you slosh the muslin bag around in a bit of water why wouldn't the starches convert into fermentable sugars that way too?
Basically my crappy stove is nowhere near being powerful enough to do AG and I don't have enough money to start importing turkey fryers into Korea so what I'd like to do is kind of micro-mashes with just a few pounds of grain while still getting all of the sugars I can out of them.
I assume that I'm confused about something, but I don't know quite what it is...
What I don't understand is why when having a bit of grain in a muslin seeping bag you can't get the starch to convert to sugars as well (kind of a micro mash). It you slosh the muslin bag around in a bit of water why wouldn't the starches convert into fermentable sugars that way too?
Basically my crappy stove is nowhere near being powerful enough to do AG and I don't have enough money to start importing turkey fryers into Korea so what I'd like to do is kind of micro-mashes with just a few pounds of grain while still getting all of the sugars I can out of them.
I assume that I'm confused about something, but I don't know quite what it is...