Steeping Grains in Wort

Hey HBT,
I am planning some partigyle brews coming up. I am excited about doing a Belgian Quad and a Kolsch. The base grain bill is pretty much the same but obviously completely different specialty malts. Can I just steep the specialty malts for 30 min. in the first runnings for the quad? I can't figure a reason why I can't...just seems that everyone always steeps in water. The only negative I can see is that the grain bag will absorb some of the high gravity wort. For the Kolsch I will just cap the mashtun with specialty grain. Thanks.

I always mill all my grains together and that way they mash for the full time (60 or 90 minutes).

TrubDog said:

I always mill all my grains together and that way they mash for the full time (60 or 90 minutes).

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That won't work though for making two distinct beers using a partygyle technique.

I always steep seperate from the mash...I think i's just a preference...but for 2 seperate styles I think you would have to.

If I am steeping separately or adding special grains at vorlauf I do it because of pH, otherwise they will end in MLT all together.
There is no reason why you couldn't do it especially for partigyle.