Recommend Mash: No??

[John Long]

Carafa - Home Brewing Wiki

Why is it not recommended to mash Carafa? and what do you do with it instead?

 

[lapaglia]

Nevermind.

I should know better than to guess. It sounded good.

 

[Brewsmith]

Because you are using it for color only. You can mash it, but only with other base grains. You can steep it just like you would any other highly roasted grain - Roasted Barley, Black Malt, Chocolate Malt.

 

[Orfy]

The mash field is "Required to mash"
You can but you don't need to. It's already converted.

 

[John Long]

Because you are using it for color only. You can mash it, but only with other base grains. You can steep it just like you would any other highly roasted grain - Roasted Barley, Black Malt, Chocolate Malt.

By steep you mean at flameout or prior? I've never steeped with any of the highly roasted grains.

 

[Orfy]

Steeping is done before the boil.

 

[Funkenjaeger]

The mash field is "Required to mash"
You can but you don't need to. It's already converted.

Right. It's not that they recommend that you DON'T mash it. That sort of field is there for people who are doing extract with steeping grains, to know whether they can use a particular grain since they are not mashing.

If you are mashing, there is absolutely no reason NOT to include Carafa in the mash - after all, a mash IS a steep, just with a lot more control of temperature, time, sparge, etc.

 

[TeleTwanger]

It means you don't have to mash it. You can steep it for an extract or throw it in a full mash later than the mash grains to just get the color and not the husks/tannin.