First brew questions

[thegrizzle]

I will be brewing for the first time and had some questions. First the directions tells me to steep my grains in the bag for 15 mins at 155 to 170 degrees, my questions is I have 3 different grains do I put them all together in the bag to steep? Second I have 3 hop additions during my brew 1 for 60 mins 1 for 30 mins and 1 for 0 mins, does that mean I add the lasts hops after I take it off the flame and keep it while I chill it and then strain it all out when I put it in the fermenting bucket?

 

[flars]

You can put all the grains in the bag as long as all three were meant for steeping. The thing to watch for is the grains in the bag should remain loose when they have absorbed water.
You can also put the grains in the water when you turn the heat on. Take them out when the water is just shy of 170°F. This should be about 20 minutes. Move the grain bag around in the kettle so high heat that may exceed 170° doesn't build up underneath it.
The zero minute addition is when you turn the heat off. These hops are boiled for zero minutes for aroma in your beer.
You can strain hop debris and break material or dump it all in the fermentor. I strain to make yeast harvesting easier.

 

[boydster]

Welcome to the hobby! You put all of the grains (they should be crushed) into the steeping bag together. It helps to move the bag around and get the grains moving a little bit while you are steeping, and when you remove the bag you can squeeze it to get most of the water out before you toss the grains or compost them or whatever you plan on doing. If you search HBT, you'll find people used to be concerned with extracting tannins from the grains if you squeezed the bag, but that's been pretty well shown to be a myth.

The zero minute addition goes in as soon as the flame goes out. You can strain out the hops when you transfer to the fermenter, or you can just dump everything into the fermenter without straining. Either way, you won't do any harm to the beer.

 

[thegrizzle]

Thanks for the help guys!