Extract Smoked Porter

[Pickle29]

I'm dying to do a smoked porter, and I'm planning on it being the next beer I do. I've been doing a lot of reading, and I keep finding conflicting stories on steeping smoked malts. One half says that smoked malts can't be steeped, the other half says that they can. So which is it?

 

[ArcaneXor]

The whole "this malt must be mashed" thing is mostly semantics. As long as you steep your smoked malt at 150ish degrees in a reasonable quantity of water (up to 2 quarts per pound of grain), you are mashing and will get at least partial conversion of starches to sugars.

 

[wahmbush]

My 2 cents.
I got good results on my first try at a smoked brown. I went on the light side of smoke and ended up darker than brown.
https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/light-smoked-brown

Doing again, I would lighten(in color) my grain and up the smoked level to 1lb and biscut to .75lb.

 

[dhutchings]

As a budding brewer fresh off of making Mr. Beer kits, the very first extract-and-steeping-grains recipe I ever made was the Brewer's Best Smoked Porter kit. It turned out fabulously and I'm looking forward to making it again!

If I could do it at that knowledge level, anyone can do it.