Evening All,
I just placed an ingrdient order for a Root Beer Dark Brown Ale I'm brewing, I wanted to get the taste/body as close to a nice creamy mug of Root Beer as possible, so of course I decied to add oats to the recipe to get the velvety smoothness.... Im sure the forum vets know where this is going, Im an extract brewer (just dont have the space or money to upgrade at this point) and I just discovered the whole "you need to mash your oats, no way around it" rule.
any advice, Ive read old threads about the subject but nothing really answered my questions.
1) IS there anyway around mashing all grain style?
2) Could I just steep the oats with some base malts in a seperate pot to get them going then dump the wort into my boil?
Thanks, -Ron
I just placed an ingrdient order for a Root Beer Dark Brown Ale I'm brewing, I wanted to get the taste/body as close to a nice creamy mug of Root Beer as possible, so of course I decied to add oats to the recipe to get the velvety smoothness.... Im sure the forum vets know where this is going, Im an extract brewer (just dont have the space or money to upgrade at this point) and I just discovered the whole "you need to mash your oats, no way around it" rule.
any advice, Ive read old threads about the subject but nothing really answered my questions.
1) IS there anyway around mashing all grain style?
2) Could I just steep the oats with some base malts in a seperate pot to get them going then dump the wort into my boil?
Thanks, -Ron